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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+
+ type="topic"
+ id="txt-select-text">
+
+ <info>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-03-03" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.14.2" date="2015-01-28" status="review"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#textoutput"/>
+ <link type="seealso" xref="txt-copy-paste"/>
+
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Sindhu S</name>
+ <email>sindhus@live.in</email>
+ <years>2013</years>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="copyright editor">
+ <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
+ <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2013, 2015</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+
+ <desc>Select individual words or lines in the terminal.</desc>
+
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Text selection</title>
+
+ <p>You can select a word or a sentence, or make a rectangular selection from
+ your terminal output:</p>
+
+ <terms>
+ <item>
+ <title>Select a word</title>
+ <p>Double click on the word.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <title>Select a line</title>
+ <p>Triple click on the line.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <title>Make a rectangular selection</title>
+ <p>Hold down the <key>Ctrl</key>, click and hold down the left mouse
+ button then drag the mouse.</p>
+ </item>
+ </terms>
+
+ <note style="tip">
+ <p>If you are running an application in <app>Terminal</app> which accepts
+ mouse input, you need to use the <key>Shift</key> modifier for the
+ <app>Terminal</app> to catch the mouse input.</p>
+ </note>
+
+</page>