Tanguy Ortolo

sunday 25 september 2011 à 19:56 ao2 said : #1

This is useful, but word selection delimiters might need to be tweaked depending on the terminal emulator, for xterm I found these instructions:
http://www.jaymzworld.com/wiki/XTerm_double-click_word_selection

For xrvt there is the "cutchars" resource.

Regards,
Antonio

sunday 25 september 2011 à 21:44 Stuart Prescott said : #2

konsole's default word-splitting characters for double click are:

:@-./_~?&=%+#

which already does what you want without padding the prompt out (although you'll notice it doesn't work for your public_html example)

interesting!

sunday 25 september 2011 à 23:17 Anonymous said : #3

Interesting point, but the few times I've needed the current directory, I find it more convenient to just type pwd | xsel. Also, gnome-terminal has the same word-select behavior as Stuart mentioned for konsole.

More frequently, though, I end up just launching whatever program I want to run directly and passing it '.'; I haven't run into a need for copying the current directory very often.

monday 26 september 2011 à 06:28 Alexander E. Patrakov said : #4

This extra space in the prompt is already the default in Gentoo.

PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\]'

monday 26 september 2011 à 13:46 jhr said : #5

But then, c&p including the host name isn't possible anymore. Well, at least you would have to erase the spaces again if you c&p to an ssh/scp command.

tuesday 27 september 2011 à 15:02 mirabilos said : #6

Your OS is simply broken ☺

The default mksh prompt looks like this:
root@aranym:~/OUT # _

The default uxterm selection stops at the colon.

Note that, on Kubuntu, you need to write
UXTerm*charClass: 33:33,35:35,37:37,38:38,43:43,44:44,45:45,46:46,47:47,58:58,61:61,62:62,63:63,64:64,95:48,126:126
into ~/.Xresources to fix their brain damage and
restore the default uxterm character classes.

tuesday 27 september 2011 à 18:02 -dsr- said : #7

I'm more likely to need a path including username and host (for ssh/scp, as previously mentioned) and so I use this:
\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]\[\033[1;37m\]\033[1;40m\]\[\033[1D\]\u@\h:\w\n\[\033[0m\]$
which includes a newline rather than a space.

friday 30 september 2011 à 23:26 Axel said : #8

I prefer _not_ to have a space between hostname and path, because then the prompt is also a proper and easy to copy and paste parameter to scp or rsync. :-)

wednesday 05 october 2011 à 10:26 lorexvii said : #9

`pwd`|xsel ?

wednesday 05 october 2011 à 10:27 lorexvii said : #10

emh... pwd|xsel