Re: Octave GUI (Win) mark text with keyboard

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
>From: Nicholas Jankowski 
>To: Oliver Betz 
>Cc: Help GNU Octave 
>Date: 2018/5/7, Mon 23:51
>Subject: Re: Octave GUI (Win) mark text with keyboard
> 
>
>On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:35 AM, Oliver Betz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>Hello All,
>>
>>in the "Command Window" of Octave GUI (4.4.0), how can I mark text with
>>the keyboard e.g. for later Ctrl-C?
>>
>>Just to verify, you only mean on the current command line text, correct? 
>>Since the command line has the keyboard input 'captured', I'm not sure how 
>>you'd use the keyboard to mark beyond the input line even if it was enabled. 
>
>I do note that for both previous output text and current input text (even 
>before hitting enter) I can mark text with a mouse and either Ctrl-C or 'right 
>click/copy to clipboard' works fine as I would expect.  I'm not sure if 
>keyboard highlighting (shift-cursor, ctrl-shift cursor) is a standard feature 
>in the terminal being used 'under the hood' for the gui, and if there would be 
>a way to enable it. 
>
> 
>Is it intended that there is no "cut" or overwrite marked text as in
>>other Windows applications?
>>
>
>
>just checking: if you highlight text on the input line and past it inserts the 
>pasted text at the cursor rather than overwrite the selected text.  
>
>
>Can anyone verify if this is consistent with behavior on non-Windows versions?


Ya! The situation is the same on linux (4.4.0 built on Ubuntu 16.04).

Tasturo