Hi,

I'm running tcsh (at work, no choice) and I deal with image sequences all the time that take the format;

blahblahblah.#1-100.jpg

When you try to double click in a konsole session to select all that it selects everything up to the # sign, I want a double click to highlight everything.

I believe there's an environment or shell variable I can set to let the shell know to regard # as a normal character and highlight it like it does the rest, but I can't for the life of me find out what the damned thing's called.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks.

Aha, you can set it in the "Configure Konsole" settings, but I was sure that there was a shell or environment variable that did the same thing.

A shell (like tcsh or bash) is purely text based and does not handle the mouse at all.

A terminal (like Konsole or xterm) acts between you and the shell, and may handle mouse events. It is the terminal that does the highlighting, and not the shell.

It is still possible for a program (like a shell) to receive mouse events from within a terminal (links, a console web-browser, does this) but I know of no shells which do this.

The setting for this sort of thing would be in your terminal (not the shell), but you've already figured that out on your own.

Yep, thanks, but I know that certain variables can change the shell, like KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION sets the tab title for the window, any idea whether there's something similar that defines the word characters?

That's still the terminal... and specific to Konsole... but I assume that's what you meant.

To answer your question: I have no idea. There might be - you'd have to check the relevant documentation. My hunch would be that this setting can only be changed in the menu.

You could always run the env command. It will list the current environment. If such a varible exists, it would presumably be set to something, and env would list it.