Re: [Usability] gnome-terminal: select the text and search the selected text in google

["Pedro de Medeiros" <pedrovmm+usability-list gmail com>]

On Nov 2, 2007 6:05 AM, Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:16 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> > Actually I think it would be more useful to be able to
> > drag text from gnome-terminal and drop it onto a panel
> > applet that did a search in the default Web browser...
>
> Agreed.  Add "search on google" to gnome-terminal and you'll get two
> bugs reports:
>
> 1) I want to use Yahoo (etc) search
> 2) I want to Search On Google from [some other application]
>
> So, you want this:
>
> http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/BitsAndPieces/googlizer.html
>
> Written by the one and only Alan Cox, no less.


Hm... and what about returning the old Un*x way of selecting text
back into the terminal [1] (pressing left button and right button to
select text instead of dragging the mouse)?


[1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html


Pedro