Re: [Usability] gnome-terminal shortcuts

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:36 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
[...]
> Another solution that's been mentioned (but never really explored) would
> be for the terminal to have something like the caret mode in Firefox...
> while active, the terminal buffer would be treated like a regular text
> document, and the standard keyboard navigation/selection/clipboard
> shortcuts would be available.  (This would probably be useful for
> screenreader users, too.)

The Sun open look cmdtool did something a little like this -- in
caret mode, the text was editable, e.g. with drag and drop or with
the keybindings, but in "visual" mode it wasn't.  that way you
couldn't confuse applications that relied on the screen contents
by editing the screen.

It wasn't entirely seamless, just a compromise.

Liam

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