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type="topic"
id="txt-select-text">
<info>
<revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-03-03" status="review"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.14.2" date="2015-01-28" status="review"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index#textoutput"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="txt-copy-paste"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Sindhu S</name>
<email>sindhus@live.in</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="copyright editor">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013, 2015</years>
</credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<desc>Select individual words or lines in the terminal.</desc>
</info>
<title>Text selection</title>
<p>You can select a word or a sentence, or make a rectangular selection from
your terminal output:</p>
<terms>
<item>
<title>Select a word</title>
<p>Double click on the word.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Select a line</title>
<p>Triple click on the line.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Make a rectangular selection</title>
<p>Hold down the <key>Ctrl</key>, click and hold down the left mouse
button then drag the mouse.</p>
</item>
</terms>
<note style="tip">
<p>If you are running an application in <app>Terminal</app> which accepts
mouse input, you need to use the <key>Shift</key> modifier for the
<app>Terminal</app> to catch the mouse input.</p>
</note>
</page>
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