Ubuntu – Highlighting to Copy with Terminal

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I'm wondering if there is a terminal enhancement, or a way to make the terminal to where when I highlight over anything it auto copies whatever I highlight. I know this is a feature in some terminal text editors (like grep or vi), but was wondering if there is compatibility somehow in the terminal itself.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Middle mouse button click will paste the highlighted text into the terminal (or wherever you can enter text).

For more detailed information on Multiple Paste Buffers see geirha's answer in this question.

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I found one nice tip from which you can start. You must to play with bash:

To set it up:
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$ f () { sed "1s/^/$(tput cup 0 0)/;s/^/$(tput il1)/"; }
$ PROMPT_COMMAND='tput cup 0 0;tput il1; echo'
$ exec > >(f)
Press enter one extra time and it's ready to try. Sometimes the output and the prompt are out of order and there may be other weirdness, but it's kind of an interesting thing to try.

Source: Reversed Terminal / Command line window.

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The program emacs has a Markdown plugin that you can read about here: http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

However, emacs has a very VERY steep learning curve as to how to use it. That page documents the shortcuts that are available, but you'll have to find other resources to find out what exactly they mean

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