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Mac OS X Terminal.app: How to select pathnames?

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Mar 15, 20263318 views
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I used iTerm for some time and switched now back to the Terminal.app again. One nice feature about iTerm is that double clicking on text does not select the word under the cursor, but rather the pathname. I miss this feature and I googled a bit to find out if/how I can select pathnames (without sel…

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Fix for: Mac OS X Terminal.app: How to select pathnames?

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After some more googling I finally found the answer to my own question: in Leopard and Snow Leopard, you have to Command+Shift+Double Click. This has the following behaviour: If the text at the mouse position is an URL, open it. Otherwise select it …

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