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  <info>
    <revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-03" status="review"/>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#textoutput"/>
    <link type="guide" xref="profile"/>
    <link type="seelaso" 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</years>
    </credit>

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    <desc>Specify which characters should be considered as part of a word.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Text selection</title>

  <p>You can define selection criteria for text in <app>Terminal</app>. You can
  allow <app>Terminal</app> to select only words consisting of letters or words
  with combinations of letters, numbers and special characters. To specify the
  range of characters that can be selected:</p>

    <steps>
      <item>
        <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
        <gui style="menuitem">Profile Preferences</gui>
        <gui style="tab">General</gui></guiseq>.</p>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>Specify the characters or ranges that you wish to be considered part
        of words in the <gui>Select-by-word characters</gui> entry field. By
        default, text selection includes all characters with numbers and some
        special characters: <var>-A-Za-z0-9,./?%&amp;#:_=+@~</var></p>
        <p>Your preferences will be saved automatically.</p>
      </item>
    </steps>

  <p>Once you have set your selection preference, you can select text in
  <app>Terminal</app> in two different ways.</p>

  <p>To select a word in <app>Terminal</app> output:</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Double click on the desired word.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <p>To select a line in <app>Terminal</app> output:</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Triple click on the desired line.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>
