Version: 2.2 (using 4.1.96 (KDE 4.1.96 (KDE 4.2 RC1)) "release 78.2", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.1) Compiler: gcc OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.27.7-9-pae The usefull option "selection end" has been removed unfortenately from konsole's context menu (most often just right click on konsole's background). This option is very usefull when copying large amount of text. In the latter case one just needed to click with the mouse at a point in the history (now scrollback) to mark the starting point and the end was marked with "selection end". With this functionality it is not needed to press a mouse button and to scroll the mouse simultaneously to copy the text. Please bring back this funtionality from kde-3.x and before.
Created attachment 30625 [details] Screenshot showing konsole's context menu with "selection end"
seconded wholeheartedly, I'm about ready to ditch konsole without this as at least other consoles let shift-click work, which konsole doesn't for no good reason I can understand.
*** Bug 240385 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Also, please consider adding the "set selection end" type functionality to something like shift+left-mouse-button. Having it as a menu entry is better than nothing but a lot of other terminal programs have this on either right mouse button (xterm, rxvt) or shift left mouse button (gnome terminal) and the lack of this functionality is annoying enough to make me use rxvt instead.
I miss it too. I'm using sqlplus a lot and mostly I need to see result in text editor (because too wide lines). And if the result has more than 100 lines, it is a problem. I can use "Select all" option, but it is not practical, when I have 5 000 lines in scrollback buffer and I want only last 100.
Holding down Shift to extend text selection has been implemented a long time ago, see bug 123755. Using Shift is much more versatile, IMHO. I'd mark it as a duplicate of bug 123755, but the subject here is about the context menu, not the extend selection functionality alone. Reopen if you still think the context menu should be implemented.
For short text selections using the shift button is fine. The request is however for long (huge) text selections. In this case (long text selection), one just marks the beginning of the text, release the mouse, scroll down (many, many lines) and when the correct point is reach where the text selection should end, the "selection end" from the the console context menu is then used. Very convenient. Much more convenient then scrolling down, down, ....,down (while scrolling down the mouse releases, and one has to start over again. Hence, the "selection end" is power users, and very much desired.
It works similar to what you describe, please try this: - Select some text and release the mouse button - Scroll to wherever you want the selection to end - Press and hold Shift then click on the selection end - Text will be selected from beginning to end (And with the fix for bug 331034, you can extend the selection in a couple more use cases).
OK, thanks (a lot)!