Bug 122831

Summary: Block selection mode shortcut is not documented.
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: lueck
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ferdinand Gassauer 2006-02-28 13:10:52 UTC 
Version:           1.6 (using KDE 3.5.1 Level "a" , SUSE 10.0 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.13-15.8-default

Hi!

IMHO it would be useful to have a "block selection mode" like in kate.
now it's a line selection mode.

cu
Comment 1 Kurt Hindenburg 2006-02-28 16:58:49 UTC 
You referring to this?

...that pressing the Ctrl and Alt keys while selecting text will let Konsole select columns?
Comment 2 Ferdinand Gassauer 2006-02-28 18:17:57 UTC 
Yes - great hidden secrets

BTW in kate it is "Ctl-Shift-B" which switches to block selection mode.
Comment 3 lexual 2006-02-28 22:12:56 UTC 
Should we consider changing or adding an additional shortcut key to have the 2 apps use the same shortcut? This would make it easier for our users.
Comment 4 Ferdinand Gassauer 2006-03-01 06:51:31 UTC 
yes and please add it to the edit menu.
Comment 5 Ferdinand Gassauer 2006-09-27 15:29:57 UTC 
or to the documentation / help !!
Comment 6 Robert Knight 2007-02-10 03:22:24 UTC 
Missing documentation is a bug, not a wishlist entry.
Comment 7 Philip Rodrigues 2007-02-10 22:53:38 UTC 
Robert, if you like, you can assign documentation bugs to the docs product (and for this one, the "missing content" component). But if you prefer to keep the bug filed against konsole, that's fine too :-)
Comment 8 Robert Knight 2008-01-12 21:34:34 UTC 
Block selection is broken in KDE 4.  The selection is drawn correctly but copying/selecting and pasting does not work.  Hence this becomes a bug in Konsole as well as a documentation issue.
Comment 9 Robert Knight 2008-03-19 04:24:58 UTC 
Block selection now works as before in KDE 4.
Comment 10 Kurt Hindenburg 2009-03-08 03:28:44 UTC 
There is a section in the Handbook under Mouse Buttons which detail selecting a column of text.
Perhaps I should add a chapter 'How to...'?

It appears that the block selection doesn't work in KDE 4.1.4 nor svn trunk.
Comment 11 Ferdinand Gassauer 2009-03-09 21:28:08 UTC 
it works well in 4.2.1

IMHO 'How to...' or "Tips and Tricks" would be helpful
Comment 12 Kurt Hindenburg 2011-08-07 14:42:32 UTC 
The key strokes to handle block selection are in the help docs.  KDE 4.8