Hi

How to make the selected area by double clicking mouse include the punctuation? For example, I want to select the whole path like

/home/johnfei/doc/map/aaa.pdf

When I double click the mouse, it only selects a single word where my cursor is. How can I make it select the whole path when I double click the mouse?

Thank you.

John

Hello,

What exactly do you mean? What program are you using to "click" stuff? You need to explain in better detail please....

Cheers,

Josh

Hi

Thank you for the reply. I want to copy the path shown either in terminal(csh) or vi editor to another terminal or vi. Thank you.

Regards,
John

What path, and to what?

What distro and desktop environment are you using and what precisely happens now?

You seem to imply that the selection stops at the period between the file name and extension; is that an accurate guess?

When I try it in your original post, using Debian Squeeze with Fluxbox and the Opera browser, double-clicking selects a word and stops at the forward slashes on either side of the word.

This sort of thing may be affected by many variables, including the capabilities of the specific program you are using and the GUI you are running.

Hi josh,

For example, I want to copy the file aaa.pdf from the directory /home/johnfei/doc/map to /proj/sdram/workarea/johnfei/doc. I will do the following procedures:

1. In one console terminal window, say term_A, under the directory /home/johnfei/doc/map, I will execute command "ls" to list all the file and the file "aaa.pdf" will be shown in this window. And, the prompt is showing the current directory which is /home/johnfei/doc/map

2. I am going to do selection of the path /home/johnfei/doc/map and paste to another terminal window, say term_B. In my current environment, I have to click the left button and drag the cursor from the beginning of "/home/johnfei/doc/map" to the end to it. Then click the middle button of mouse to term_B to paste the source path to it.

But, I know, it should be able to double click on anywhere of the source string "/home/johnfei/doc/map", and the whole string will be selected. I don't need to drag the cursor from the beginning of the path string all the way to the end.

That's my question. I hope this time I have made it clear.
Thank you.

Regards,
John

Hi frankbell,

Now it only select a word, such as "doc" or "map", when I double clicked on any where of the whole string. It should be able to make it select the whole path string when I double click on it.

Thanks.
John

Ahh, I see. Have you ever worked with the pushd and popd commands?
http://ss64.com/bash/pushd.html
http://ss64.com/bash/popd.html
For example, run the following in your first terminal:
Then, in your other terminal, run the following:
Let me know if that interests you, it may work out better.

Cheers,

Josh

Hi Josh,

Thank you for your comment. The way you provided is good between terminals. But, it doesn't work between terminal and vi editor.

Regards,
John

Check this out, it looks really promising: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=129