Re: [orca-list] Selecting Text in the Terminal

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Hi,
No problems with orca 2.8.1.

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On 11/07/2009 02:40 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Has anyone been able to select text in a terminal with Orca lately? 
> What I tried to do was position the flat review cursor (mouse pointer) 
> over the left most character and press the keypad slash key to left 
> click it. Then move over to the right most character and do a 
> shift-slash to complete the selection. At that point, I would hope to 
> have a selection on the edit menu to copy the text. Also, if I would 
> press the keypad enter key, I would expect to hear the selected text. 
> But the key never speaks any selected text and the copy option is 
> never shown in the edit menu. This all makes me think the text 
> selection feature is now broken in Orca or something changed. I can 
> cut/paste just fine from other gnome apps and I can paste previously 
> copied text from any other gnome app to the terminal and paste with 
> gnome-terminal but I can't select for copy any text in the terminal 
> with the above described procedure.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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