2.3.5 Select and Mark Text on a Terminal Screen
Reflection provides two different styles for selecting and marking text on the terminal screen, using either your keyboard or your mouse.
You can select and mark any rectangular area on the screen, or you can select and mark contiguous lines on the screen. You can also set the default behavior for your terminal sessions.
To set the default for selecting text on VT sessions
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Open the Document Settings dialog box.
The steps depend on your user interface mode.
User Interface Mode
Steps
Ribbon or Reflection Browser
With a session open in Reflection, from the , click
.TouchUx
Tap the Gear icon and then select
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In the Settings dialog box, select .
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In the Terminal Setup dialog box, select the Keyboard & Mouse tab.
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To set text selection so that selected text forms a rectangle (instead of wrapping), select .
To set the default for selecting text on IBM sessions
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Open the Document Settings dialog box.
The steps depend on your user interface mode.
User Interface Mode
Steps
Ribbon or Reflection Browser
With a session open in Reflection, from the , click
.TouchUx
Tap the Gear icon and then select
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In the Settings dialog box, select .
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To set text selection so that selected text forms a rectangle (instead of wrapping), select .
To select text using the non-default behavior
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(IBM only) When using the mouse, to use the non-default behavior, hold down the CTRL key while dragging the mouse.
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(VT and IBM) When using a keyboard, to change the default behavior, select the action in the Keyboard Mapper, and then choose either or .