GUI terminal emu with a single step copy & paste feature - Was: non-snap version of FF under Ubuntu 22.04?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2023-04-21 at 16:50 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 21/4/23 10:23, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > 2. I even need to install a PPA to get ROXTerm. I'm not aware of a
> >    terminal from the repos, that at least provides a "Copy & Paste"
> >    option. Note! A "Copy & Paste" option not just a "Copy" option
> >    and a "Paste" option. Apart from this ROXTerm has other
> >    advantages, but "Copy & Paste" is a minimal requirement for my
> >    workflow.
>
> Doesn't <CTRL><C> and <CTRL><V> work for you, with copy and paste?

Hi Bret,

in ROXTerm

Shift+Ctrl+C does copy
Shift+Ctrl+V does paste
Shift+Ctrl+Y does copy & paste

but usually I'm using the right click menu after selecting the text I
want to copy & paste.

This is a useful feature, if you want to copy text within the same
terminal tab, not to share between different tabs or other apps.

Take a look at the attached screenshot.

I typed

echo "bar"

pushed enter and then I noticed that I have forgotten to type

foo

in the example I already have

echo "foo

then I mark

bar"

and use the copy & paste feature to copy and paste it by one step. I
don't use two steps, 1. copy and 2. paste to get

echo "foo bar"

I don't know how to use command line that easy with readline, at least

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ echo "bar"
bar
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ !!:s^bar^foo bar
echo "foo bar"
foo bar

IMO isn't that straight forward. Let alone that I didn't remember
!!:s^string^string, I needed to google for it.

My example is stupid, but I think you get the point.

Regards,
Ralf
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