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

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
Instead of just shift+slash try ctrl+shift+slash. It works for me.

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On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 10:36 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Nah, sure broken here <sigh>.  I used to be able to use this in
> versions past on other distros but haven't done this in quite some
> time.  I don't have to set anything up in advance, do I? The only
> thing I notice now is when I press the slash key to begin the
> selection, I usually hear nothing spoken; then when I get to the end
> of the block to select, I press shift slash and I will hear "Paste
> grayed shift-control-v."  After that, if I go to the edit menu, there
> is no option available to copy the selection.  I also have no selected
> text spoken when I press the kp_enter key either.
>
> If this actually works for you, what prompts or text gets spoken when
> you go through these steps?  Also, I notice that if I press slash with
> or without the shift enhancement at the end of the selection block, I
> hear that same text I mentioned earlier; it's like no difference so
> I'm getting suspicious of the shift slash key combo.
>
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:34:20AM -0200, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote:
> > 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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