[konsole] [Bug 398750] New: [Konsole] text selection impossible when output is being generated

[RJVB]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398750

            Bug ID: 398750
           Summary: [Konsole] text selection impossible when output is
                    being generated
           Product: konsole
           Version: master
          Platform: Compiled Sources
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: copy-paste
          Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: rjvbertin at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

It is understandable that text selection using the mouse is tricky when the
terminal is scrolling because of command output being generated.

It is much less intuitive that this is also the case when you have scrolled
back up the history, e.g. to see (and copy from) the first output generated by
a long-running process.

I do not know if it's possible to maintain a reliable offset into the
scrollback buffer corresponding to the mouse pointer position when the terminal
has been scrolled back and text is being appended to the buffer. It not, it may
be less frustrating to disable text selection (when both conditions are true,
or even while output is being generated and the terminal isn't scrolled back)
and sound the bell instead.

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