Bug 123755

Summary: shift-click select does not work for marking large clipboards
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Alan Ezust <alan.ezust>
Component: copy-pasteAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: adaptee
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: http://commits.kde.org/konsole/9a3d588d0e9abf2b01bf769c88bc3fafbe65ccd8 Version Fixed In: 4.11
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Alan Ezust 2006-03-16 22:48:33 UTC 
Version:           1.6 (using KDE 3.5.1, Debian Package 4:3.5.1-3 (testing/unstable))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.15nv

In some editing apps, if you click on one spot, scroll around a while, and then hold shift while clicking again, that defines the start and end points of a region to mark in the text, which you can copy into the clipboard.

I really wish that worked in Konsole - I often have large amounts of scollback I'd like to copy and paste into an editor, and it's so tedious to click and drag. I'd like to be able to click a spot, scroll down to the bottom of the konsole scrollbar, and shift-click, to mark from that point to the bottom of the scrollback buffer. Then copy.
Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2006-03-17 15:08:02 UTC 
Why has it to be shift-click? What's wrong with right click and "Set Selection End"?
Comment 2 Alan Ezust 2006-03-17 18:58:12 UTC 
Ah - didn't notice that. nice that I can do it that way too. i never
looked for that in the context menu before since the shift-click works in most other view widgets.

I suppose it would be nice to have shift-click do the same thing...
Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2011-10-24 14:08:02 UTC 
rxvt-unicode and vte-based emulators have this feature. I find it quite handy. 

And, the "Set Selection End" is unfortunately gone in KDE4 konsole(bug 181986), so we'd better either get that action back or implement this feature.
Comment 4 Kurt Hindenburg 2012-12-28 15:12:24 UTC 
Git commit 9a3d588d0e9abf2b01bf769c88bc3fafbe65ccd8 by Kurt Hindenburg.
Committed on 28/12/2012 at 16:05.
Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'master'.

Implement Shift+click to extend selection

Add ability to press Shift+Click to extend the mouse selection.  In
KDE3 there was the menu option to 'Set Selection End' which this mimics.

REVIEW: 107566
FIXED-IN: 4.11

M  +9    -5    src/TerminalDisplay.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/konsole/9a3d588d0e9abf2b01bf769c88bc3fafbe65ccd8