Can I specify double-click selection delimiters in Terminal.app?

macos terminal.app selection

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Solution 1

It would appear from this question that it isn't configurable, at least system wide, and that configurable applications are rare. However, iTerm was mentioned as one that is.

Solution 2

Shift + Command + double_click

From: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2400559&start=15&tstart=0

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nall

My background is in hardware design verification and EDA tools. Most notably I'm one of the authors of Jove, a set of Java libaries to aid in design verification of chips.

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

nall almost 2 years

In Mac OS X's Terminal.app, I'd like to set my own selection delimiters such that if I have the text foo.bar.baz and double click bar, only bar is selected.

Is this possible and if so how?
Chris Page almost 13 years

To clarify: that question is unrelated to this one. That question is about changing how application programs like Emacs and Vim treat words. iTerm's word separator preference only affects selecting text with iTerm. Still, the answer to this question is that the selection separator is not directly configurable in Terminal. However, it's worth noting that Terminal uses the system-wide preference System Preferences > Language & Text > Text > Word Break, which users can change, but there probably aren't any available preference values that would help in this case.
user53251 almost 13 years

@Chris The question asked how do I double click to select foo.bar.baz in the terminal. Shift-Command-Double-Click works for that use case.
Chris Page almost 13 years

"…such that if I have the text foo.bar.baz and double click bar, only bar is selected." [emph. Mine]