Re: [orca-list] How to copy pieces of text from a gnome-terminal window

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

Normally you place a mark then move the cursor to the end of your link
then hit copy and that takes everything from the mark to your cursor
location into the clipboard.
It's not even useful to have a clipboard capability that only copies a
single string or word since especially urls can have spaces in them and
the first space however shown ends your copy.


On Thu, 9 Sep 2021, Christophe Delaunay wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
>
> Thanks for this response. It seems that it is kinda what I'm looking for, at
> least when I can't predict a command will bring back something interesting to
> me.
>
>
> I just had the problem one hour ago or so. I entered a command. In its result,
> the command displayed an HTTP link I did not expect. I read the command result
> and wanted to copy this link in my preferred web browser. I pressed <keypad
> minus> and noticed orca entered flat screen review. Then I placed the flat
> review cursor at the beginning of the link and pressed <insert+c> which I
> previously assigned to "copy text under flat review cursor to the clipboard".
>
>
> I then switch to a text editor window, and pressed <ctrl+v>. Something was
> pasted into my editing window but it was the last thing I copied to my
> clipboard before pressing <insert+c>, in other words, something which was not
> in my terminal window.
>
>
> As a workaround, I switched back to the terminal, pressed <alt+e> to open the
> terminal's edit menu and then chose "Select All". I then press <walt+e> once
> more and chose "copy". I switched back to my editor and pressed <ctrl+v>.
> Tghis time, the whole content of the terminal window was pasted to my editing
> window. Since in the editing window, I'm able to select, just the piece of
> text I want, I selected the whole link, copied it to the clipboard, and
> finally could successfully paste it in the browser.
>
>
> I'll try one more time later but at this time, I don't understand why orca did
> not do anything with my assigned keyboard shortcut, although I previously
> successfully assigned some orca commands to keyboard shortcuts.
>
>
> Have a nice day. Chrfis D
>
>
> On 09/08/2021, 19:16, Matt Dizak wrote:
> > Yep, go into Orca settings and you'll see a tab for key bindings.
> > Within the bindings there's one for copy while in flat review.
> >
> > Assign a keyboard shortcut to that binding.  For myself, I have Insert+C.
> >
> > Now while in terminal, just hit the dash - key on the keypad and Orca
> > will say "Entering flat review".  Now you can navigate through the
> > terminal by using the keypad:
> >
> > 7 and 9 = up and down one line
> > 4 and 6 = left and right one word
> > 1 and 3 = left and right one character
> >
> > Scroll to the piece of text you want (ie. database field) hit your
> > copy keyboard binding, and it'll be in your clipboard.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/8/21, Christophe Delaunay <christophe delaunay-ext ariadnext com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >
> > > If the portion of text I'm interested in is a command I just typed, I
> > > can edit the .bash_history.
> > >
> > >
> > > If the text I want is a large piece of output, I can redirect the output
> > > and errors of the command before submitting it and then edit the
> > > resulting file to select the wanted text and copy it.
> > >
> > >
> > > If the wanted text is part of a whole session, I run the commands I want
> > > in a screen session with logging turned on.
> > >
> > >
> > > But is there a way to select text directly from inside the terminal
> > > window and copy it please?
> > >
> > >
> > > Many thanks in advance. Have a nice day. Chris D
> > >
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