On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 23:19:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 23:00:54 -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Hi, mick.. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. I > > clicked CTRL then dragged the cursor to select 3 or 4 words as a > > phrase. I was able to then choose a few more random snippets while > > holding the CTRL key down the hold time. > > For whatever it's worth, I can't duplicate your success in rxvt-unicode > or Brave in fvwm (X11), but I *can* get it to work in Firefox ESR in > the same session.
I think Cindy uses FF, though it might be a mozilla download. > It's a little bit clumsy. If I select a word/phrase lower on the page > first, and then a word higher on the page second, the resulting paste > has the higher word first. I would imagine that is because Word, I am told, does it that way. > Also, double-clicking a word selects only that word, with no whitespace > before or after it, which is normally what you want. But in this case, > the lack of whitespace can be an issue. When you double-click several > words while holding Ctrl, you get allthewordsmashedtogether. OTOH, I understand that Word does not smash the words—in fact, I think the disjoint selections are separated by newlines, perhaps even blank lines. When copying from a webpage in FF and pasting in xterm, pasting " foo " and " bar " produces " foo bar ", not " foo bar ". However, copying from a real text file like /etc/hosts, again in FF, the behaviour is quite different: disjoint selections are separated by a blank line when pasted into xterm. (If you don't use bracketed-paste, I suggest you set it before trying this.) Cheers, David.
