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

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Samuel Thibault (2026/02/21 18:55 +0100):
> 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.

Okay. I didn't undrstand whether the smart copy also works in several
steps like the other forms of copies, though?