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Bug 721831 - Expose selection api
Expose selection api
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 679658
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-01-08 21:40 UTC by aurel
Modified: 2014-01-08 22:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Patch to expose selection api (3.93 KB, patch)
2014-01-08 21:40 UTC, aurel 		none Details | Review

Description aurel 2014-01-08 21:40:30 UTC 
Created attachment 265791 [details] [review]
Patch to expose selection api

Adds following functions:
vte_terminal_select_empty_at,
vte_terminal_select_text,
vte_terminal_get_start_selection,
vte_terminal_get_end_selection,
vte_terminal_get_selection,
vte_terminal_get_selection_block_mode,
vte_terminal_set_selection_block_mode.
vte_terminal_copy - this function is needed to copy current selection to clipboard.

It will allow applications to control text selection better. For example - with
keyboard.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2014-01-08 22:21:15 UTC 
Bug 679658 is rather similar and has some discussion already; let's continue it there.

IMHO keyboard selection should be done inside vte, not driven from outside like this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 679658 ***