Also, in Gnome 3, with the terminal, let's say that I've typed
something, and I get an error which consists of a fairly lengthy
command I can type to try correcting the issue. Either that or
maybe there's just something in general from the terminal that I
need elseware. Does Orca give us the ability to somehow mark the
beginning of a text area of the terminal screen, then mark the
end, then be able to copy that block of text to the clipboard? I
know how to paste within the terminal with CTRL+Shift+V, and I
know about CTRL+Shift+C and CTRL+Shift+X to copy and to cut, but
that only seems to work with pasting.
For me, if I know there's something wrong and need to copy the
error message I would pipe the output to a temporary file and use
emacspeak or other text editor.
You can also use emacs or emacspeak for this. It's like combining
text editor and bash terminal.
This artible from TV Raman should help
(http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/Running-Terminal-Based-Applications.html)
The idea is that we run terminal using char sub-mode and when we
need to copy some stuff, switch to line sub-mode and the whole
terminal will become large text editor. We can navigate using
arrow key to beginning of selection, mark it, and arrow to the end
of selection and copy to clipboard. Then switch back to char
sub-mode.
Hope that helps
Edhoari Setiyoso
On 02/17/2018 08:55 AM, Christopher
Gilland wrote:
OK, so two things.
First of all, given the fact that in Firefox, and though I've
not tried, I'm guessing probably also Thunderbird doesn't read
with Orca at all when you try selecting a block of text with
shift+down arrow, or however you choose, what is the easiest way
to know what's selected, to be sure you're not getting too
little, or too much content before hitting CTRL+C to copy the
selection to the clipboard?
Also, in Gnome 3, with the terminal, let's say that I've typed
something, and I get an error which consists of a fairly lengthy
command I can type to try correcting the issue. Either that or
maybe there's just something in general from the terminal that I
need elseware. Does Orca give us the ability to somehow mark the
beginning of a text area of the terminal screen, then mark the
end, then be able to copy that block of text to the clipboard? I
know how to paste within the terminal with CTRL+Shift+V, and I
know about CTRL+Shift+C and CTRL+Shift+X to copy and to cut, but
that only seems to work with pasting.
I know a sighted person could drag their mouse over the area
they need selected, then could hit CTRL+Shift+C to copy it
within the terminal, but I've not been very successful at
finding a way to accomplish that with Orca.
Any help appreciated. Is there like a virtual viewer, or
something like what JFW in Windows has?
Chris.
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