[Konsole-devel] Review Request: Add 'Select All' action to select all output in the session

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This review has been submitted with commit d11fd4ea18de0bab408e6a41770278873d968ba4 by Jekyll Wu to branch master.

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On Sept. 17, 2011, 6:13 p.m., Jekyll Wu wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 17, 2011, 6:13 p.m.)
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> Review request for Konsole.
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> Summary
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> I think this feature is quite handy in a few situations. For example, execute a couple of commands in a new tab then paste the whole output as example in a tutorial or forum post. It is not difficult to implement and gnome-terminal & xfce4-terminal both provide it, so why not?
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> The action use Ctrl+Shift+S as default shortcut. My first thought is using Ctrl+Shift+A, but that is already used by 'Moninor activity' action.  Actually, neither of them are very convenient to press. Any idea for better default shortcut?
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> This addresses bug 199990.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199990
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> Diffs
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>   desktop/sessionui.rc e9894da 
>   src/ScreenWindow.h 51adb42 
>   src/ScreenWindow.cpp 553b4e2 
>   src/SessionController.h 0de39d4 
>   src/SessionController.cpp b357172 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102372/diff
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> Testing
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> It works quite well when the first screen is in use(shell, of course).
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> However, when the second screen is in use(less,vim,nano,mc,etc), it does not work very well. I can still use it to select all text in the screen, but copying them will return garbage result. 
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> Maybe this action should be disabled when the second screen is used. That requires extra code in Emulation.cpp to emit some signal when the screen is switched.
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> Thanks,
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> Jekyll
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