[BRLTTY] Smart Copy (Was: Re: xbrlapi: Minor clipboard issues and one small feature) request

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, le sam. 21 févr. 2026 11:51:46 -0500, a ecrit:
> [quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2026/02/21 at 10:11 +0100]
> >I am not sure I am found of that. I think even for a smart copy I'd
> >prefer the smartness to go to the right from where I selected, not to
> >the left. To me that owuld be more coherent with how things already
> >work.
> 
> But, in this case, do we want that kind of strict consistency? Your origial complaint was that it's hard to find the end of a URL. In theory, it's equally hard to find the beginning of a URL. So why not just let the software do the work in both directions. Isn't that provided ease more important than an obscure kind of consistency?

To put a bit of experience into the discussion: when double-clicking
with a mouse in a terminal, the selection is made for a whole url,
looking by itself for both the beginning and end.

Samuel