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Bug 353881 - documentation on select-by-word should be improved
documentation on select-by-word should be improved
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: docs
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Maintainers of Gnome user documentation
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-01 17:52 UTC by Josselin Mouette
Modified: 2006-09-03 17:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Josselin Mouette 2006-09-01 17:52:57 UTC 
[ forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/385603 ]

The documentation concerning the select-by-word feature (Section 3.4)
should be improved, as nothing is said on how the non-word characters
are handled. It should say that:
  * A sequence of non-word characters forms a word.
  * Each line ends with a newline character, regarded as a non-word
    character, but having a word boundary after it (i.e., the
    following non-word characters won't be selected).
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-09-01 18:06:12 UTC 
This has actually have been changed very recently (bug 25290) such that each non-word character now forms its own word.  This is admittedly a much more useful behavior.
Comment 2 Joachim Noreiko 2006-09-03 12:46:38 UTC 
Added to the end of the paragraph:

Symbols are selected individually.

(Really, this sort of information should be mentioned once and once only in the User Guide, in a general section on working with text. However, the change made by bug 25290 means Terminal's behaviour is now inconsistent with the rest of GNOME, eg gedit. Will this be fixed in the future?)
Comment 3 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-09-03 17:24:24 UTC 
Well, terminal is a bit of an exception, as it doesn't work on plain text like the other apps do.  And selection is already inherently different in terminal as you select boxes while in other apps you select between gaps.