I switched to iTerm (2) years ago on MacOS, never looked back. Shift select in nano works great and I fixed option-left/right a few years ago in nano to work as expected with the default iTerm keycode bindings.
You can setup shift arrows to generate whatever codes you want in Terminal under Terminal/Preferences.../Profiles/Keyboard but it's a paint to re-setup everything every time you hit a new system even with Import/Export of profiles.
-Mike
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:21 AM Dirkjan Ochtman <
address@hidden> wrote:
Ah, that seems to be the problem. I'm using macOS Terminal.app, which doesn't do this right now.
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 17:39:50 +0200
Dirkjan Ochtman <address@hidden> wrote:
> I was interested in using the Shift marking feature, but it doesn't
> seem to work on my machines, both on Gentoo Linux and on macOS (from
> homebrew). Is this only enabled using a compile-time flag?
Type 'cat' in the terminal and press up arrow, enter, and shift + up arrow. Do they produce different codes? If not, you'll need to figure out how to make your terminal produce unique codes, or use a different terminal.
Otherwise, what version of nano and what terminal are you using? It works fine in 3.1 with the following use flags and urxvt, xterm or linux console.
(ncurses unicode -debug -justify -magic -minimal -nls -slang -spell -static)
Shift selections were added in 2.7.0, so Gentoo's stable 2.8.7 version should also work, but it lacks numerous improvements to selections.
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