Re: selecting text with mouse includes linenumbers

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 04-02-2024 om 10:52 schreef Andreas Radke:
> Using nano without mouse support using mouse or with mouse support
> enabled and using CTRL+mouse to select text and linenumbers enabled

(On an Xfce terminal Shift+drag selects text when `--mouse` is active.)

> will always include the linenumber and space character before the text
> copied to the buffer.

It is the terminal that does the text selection, nano has no part
in this.  Vim (with :set number) works the same way for me: also
the line numbers get selected.

On Xfce terminal, when holding Ctrl, one can make a block selection.
In this way one could select text without selecting also the line
numbers, but I agree that this is awkward and requires too much
precision -- then it's easier to just toggle M-N first.

If there is some way to tell the terminal to restrict text selection
to a specific area, I would like to hear about it.

Benno

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