do you use your terminal (CLI- Shell) in strict sense or with the help of mouse and contextual menu? by jazei | tildeverse BBJ

>0 jazei @ 2025/10/03 16:22

How many of you use the terminal (= CLI) in a strict sense in relation to open a link without using the right mouse button to open the link from the contextual menu. Or to select and export a line not using click and drag and then control+shhift+c key ...?

>1 ferorge @ 2025/10/10 10:18

>>OP
I use tty without X server.

>2 jmcs @ 2025/10/14 21:43

>>OP
I have been using xfce4-terminal lately, and before, xterm. I appreciate the convenience of still having the mouse in case I need to copy anything by selecting some text, or, since xfce4-terminal highlights links automatically, ctrl+click to open them in librewolf.

I'm also a 'screen' user, and although it comes with the 'copy mode' thingy, I have never really used it much.

I just checked, and I even have gpm installed, so I can use that the times I decide to go to tty1 for a while :)

I'm however trying to get to know and use vim a bit more deeply, and take advantage of buffers and windows so I can yank and paste things more efficiently when editing text. Having two editor instances, having to :set nonumber, then select, go to the other instance and paste... gets cumbersome quickly

>3 ant @ 2025/10/16 13:53

>>OP No, I am not using the terminal in the strict sense, but should like to learn this.  What I typically need is a way to copy pieces of text shown on the screen. Some vi-like navigation would do, but without actually making a "text-shot" and starting vi by hand...

>4 satori @ 2025/10/25 05:11

>>OP
I use plain old Gnome Terminal. Copying text and opening links sounds like it'd be incredibly annoying if you used a terminal in the strict sense.

>5 yalla @ 2025/10/25 08:46

>>OP

I'm using the kitty [1] termemu, which was thiis wonderful shortcut
ctrl+shift+u: It highlights all URLs on the current screen, marks
them with a single letter, and when you press this letter, it copies
the URL to the clipboard.

Then I can consume it from everywhere.

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1. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/