Bugzilla – Bug 1217500
GNOME Terminal should add "Select all" context menu entry and support CTRL+SHIFT+A
Last modified: 2023-11-26 05:02:15 UTC
GNOME Terminal should add "Select all" context menu entry and support CTRL+SHIFT+A, this is especially really important for developers. Countless times I see myself confronted with a large scrollback of output when developing a program, and what I would urgently need to deal with the onslaught of information properly is to just select all of the entire scrollable output, copy, paste, and then continue dissecting it in some other advanced text editor to find what I need. Currently, this seems to be entirely impossible for some reason, I just can't find any way to select everything seen in a GNOME Terminal, neither via CTRL+SHIFT+A (seems to do nothing) nor via context menu (has no relevant entry) nor via anywhere else. Affects GNOME Terminal 3.50.1 as shipped in openSUSE Slowroll.
As this is per upstream design, please file a bug at Gnome upstream.
Btw, it is fairly easy to enable a keyboard shortcut in Gnome terminal: - open Gnome terminal - open the hamburger menu - click Preferences -> Shortcut - define "CTRL+SHIFT+A" for Select all
You wouldn't happen to know why it's not in the context menu and a predefined shortcut in that case? I feel like at some point it was, but now it no longer seems to be. For what it's worth, I now made an upstream ticket here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/issues/8031
Playing around with it more, it actually also seems to be broken: sometimes it only selects the viewport and none of the scrollback, although sometimes it also selects the entire scrollback (in my opinion the only use that really makes sense), so I guess maybe that is why it's disabled? Or I have no idea why it would be otherwise. Fascinating