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> tmux and screen I think allow you to navigate the buffer
> and idk, maybe they let you select text in it, I haven't
> really looked into that stuff.
Copying text in tmux:
- <meta> [
- hjkl (or /? (search forward/back) the
cursor where you want it
- <space> to mark copy starting point
- hjkl (or /? (search forward/back) the
cursor where you want it
- <space> to copy from "copy starting
point" to where cursor is at
then paste however you normally do that in your terminal.
Hopefully that's both accurate, and not too confusing.
> My own solution, the one I've wanted to adopt but I have
> never put myself to the task of it, is to have everything
> that would get printed to the screen saved and perhaps
> even parsed by default, so that I could select contents by
> referencing them through certain commands.... kind of like
> how the DOM works with websites. In fact, that's one of
> my um... "stashed" projects: a terminal based web browser
> that allows you to walk and selectively display parts of
> the document.
Sounds interesting, although since I almost always want to copy visible stuff, to me the context shift from what I can see to some perpetually-appended-to copy might incur a focus (the mind kind) penalty.
> I should do that, oh I should. I've said it enough times
> already to know that should mostly means won't.
I hear Murphy is hiring. ;-)
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