Re: selecting text with mouse includes linenumbers

[Benno Schulenberg]

An alternative could be to add this line to your nanorc:

  bind Sh-M-C "{execute}|xsel -ib{enter}{undo}" main

Then you can select text in nano in the normal way
(by holding Shift while moving the cursor; not with
the mouse) and copy it to the system's clipboard
with Shift+Alt+C.  After that you can paste it into
graphical apps with Ctrl+V, or into another terminal
with Shift+Ctrl+V.

(Instead of Sh-M-C you can of course bind any other
shortcut you like -- for example: M-C, in case you
never use constantshow.)


> Vim (with :set number) works the same way for me: also
> the line numbers get selected.

Emacs (after M-x linu <Tab> <Enter>) behaves this way too.


Benno

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