Re: [orca-list] What's the best stratigy for accomplishing these two basic tasks?



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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