Re: spotlight and cutting/copying/zapping

[Liu Hao]

在 2021/3/8 上午2:39, Benno Schulenberg 写道:
> > When someone is tempted to cut this
> > occurrence by pressing Ctrl-K, instead of spotted text, the whole line is cut. 
> > Is
> > there something we can improve further?
>
> I don't know.  Any suggestions?  I've tried adding italic, but that doesn't
> look nice: the last letter in the selection tends to get clipped.
>
> Or maybe the default for selected text should become without a background
> color, say "italic,orange"?  The spotlight color needs to have a background
> color, otherwise it is too hard to spot.  But when selecting text, you know
> what you're doing, your eyes are on the cursor already, so you just need a
> relatively small contrast between selected and unselected text.

I suggest blinking without color changes. On GNOME terminal this is illustrated 
by

  echo -e '\e[5mabc\e[25mdef'


Or maybe underline? It might be okay but some terminals underline stuff that 
looks like URLs or  paths.



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Best regards,
Liu Hao

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