type="topic"

      id="txt-select-text">

  <info>

    <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-03-03" status="review"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.14.2" date="2015-01-28" status="review"/>

    <link type="guide" xref="index#textoutput"/>

    <link type="seealso" xref="txt-copy-paste"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Sindhu S</name>

      <email>sindhus@live.in</email>

      <years>2013</years>

    </credit>

    <credit type="copyright editor">

      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>

      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>

      <years>2013, 2015</years>

    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Select individual words or lines in the terminal.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Text selection</title>

  
You can select a word or a sentence, or make a rectangular selection from

  your terminal output:

  <terms>

    <item>

      <title>Select a word</title>

      
Double click on the word.

    </item>

    <item>

      <title>Select a line</title>

      
Triple click on the line.

    </item>

    <item>

      <title>Make a rectangular selection</title>

      
Hold down the <key>Ctrl</key>, click and hold down the left mouse

      button then drag the mouse.

    </item>

  </terms>

  <note style="tip">

    
If you are running an application in <app>Terminal</app> which accepts

    mouse input, you need to use the <key>Shift</key> modifier for the

    <app>Terminal</app> to catch the mouse input.

  </note>

</page>