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How to highlight and select text in wsl?


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Recently I installed bash on Ubuntu on Windows. My experience and knowledge of the Linux terminal are very limited and I am not able to figure out how to highlight text to copy the required text or to select the text in the Ubuntu terminal emulator. Trying to highlight the text using mouse has not worked. Please help me.










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  • What if you select the text and then right click to open the contextual menu ? You can also try to ctrl + shift + c to copy the selected text.

    – ponsfrilus
    Jul 14 '18 at 19:43











  • @ponsfrilus I cant select the text at all.

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:18






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    You have to activate quick edit mode (see stackoverflow.com/a/50050642/960623)

    – ponsfrilus
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:41











  • @ponsfrilus I had already read that article and it's about keys for copying and pasting but there is nothing about selecting or highlighting text.

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:59











  • Found the answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38832230/…

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 21:07
















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Recently I installed bash on Ubuntu on Windows. My experience and knowledge of the Linux terminal are very limited and I am not able to figure out how to highlight text to copy the required text or to select the text in the Ubuntu terminal emulator. Trying to highlight the text using mouse has not worked. Please help me.










share|improve this question

























  • What if you select the text and then right click to open the contextual menu ? You can also try to ctrl + shift + c to copy the selected text.

    – ponsfrilus
    Jul 14 '18 at 19:43











  • @ponsfrilus I cant select the text at all.

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:18






  • 1





    You have to activate quick edit mode (see stackoverflow.com/a/50050642/960623)

    – ponsfrilus
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:41











  • @ponsfrilus I had already read that article and it's about keys for copying and pasting but there is nothing about selecting or highlighting text.

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:59











  • Found the answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38832230/…

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 21:07














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Recently I installed bash on Ubuntu on Windows. My experience and knowledge of the Linux terminal are very limited and I am not able to figure out how to highlight text to copy the required text or to select the text in the Ubuntu terminal emulator. Trying to highlight the text using mouse has not worked. Please help me.










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Recently I installed bash on Ubuntu on Windows. My experience and knowledge of the Linux terminal are very limited and I am not able to figure out how to highlight text to copy the required text or to select the text in the Ubuntu terminal emulator. Trying to highlight the text using mouse has not worked. Please help me.







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  • What if you select the text and then right click to open the contextual menu ? You can also try to ctrl + shift + c to copy the selected text.

    – ponsfrilus
    Jul 14 '18 at 19:43











  • @ponsfrilus I cant select the text at all.

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:18






  • 1





    You have to activate quick edit mode (see stackoverflow.com/a/50050642/960623)

    – ponsfrilus
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:41











  • @ponsfrilus I had already read that article and it's about keys for copying and pasting but there is nothing about selecting or highlighting text.

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:59











  • Found the answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38832230/…

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 21:07



















  • What if you select the text and then right click to open the contextual menu ? You can also try to ctrl + shift + c to copy the selected text.

    – ponsfrilus
    Jul 14 '18 at 19:43











  • @ponsfrilus I cant select the text at all.

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:18






  • 1





    You have to activate quick edit mode (see stackoverflow.com/a/50050642/960623)

    – ponsfrilus
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:41











  • @ponsfrilus I had already read that article and it's about keys for copying and pasting but there is nothing about selecting or highlighting text.

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 20:59











  • Found the answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38832230/…

    – GRANZER
    Jul 14 '18 at 21:07

















What if you select the text and then right click to open the contextual menu ? You can also try to ctrl + shift + c to copy the selected text.

– ponsfrilus
Jul 14 '18 at 19:43





What if you select the text and then right click to open the contextual menu ? You can also try to ctrl + shift + c to copy the selected text.

– ponsfrilus
Jul 14 '18 at 19:43













@ponsfrilus I cant select the text at all.

– GRANZER
Jul 14 '18 at 20:18





@ponsfrilus I cant select the text at all.

– GRANZER
Jul 14 '18 at 20:18




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1





You have to activate quick edit mode (see stackoverflow.com/a/50050642/960623)

– ponsfrilus
Jul 14 '18 at 20:41





You have to activate quick edit mode (see stackoverflow.com/a/50050642/960623)

– ponsfrilus
Jul 14 '18 at 20:41













@ponsfrilus I had already read that article and it's about keys for copying and pasting but there is nothing about selecting or highlighting text.

– GRANZER
Jul 14 '18 at 20:59





@ponsfrilus I had already read that article and it's about keys for copying and pasting but there is nothing about selecting or highlighting text.

– GRANZER
Jul 14 '18 at 20:59













Found the answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38832230/…

– GRANZER
Jul 14 '18 at 21:07





Found the answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/38832230/…

– GRANZER
Jul 14 '18 at 21:07










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This is a partial answer from this link. If you have a shortcut in your desktop, right click on it, click in properties and then go to the options tab. To activate copy and paste, you need to click copy and paste using ctrl+shift+C|V checkbox. To highlight text, you need to enable(check mark) the edit mode checkbox. This was tested in WSL in Windows 10.



Note that this is only a partial solution as this will not work if you start WSL from Windows Explorer. As described in the link above, it depends where you are calling WSL from. Hopefully somebody else adds to this answer. In the meantime, this solution works for me.






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    This is a partial answer from this link. If you have a shortcut in your desktop, right click on it, click in properties and then go to the options tab. To activate copy and paste, you need to click copy and paste using ctrl+shift+C|V checkbox. To highlight text, you need to enable(check mark) the edit mode checkbox. This was tested in WSL in Windows 10.



    Note that this is only a partial solution as this will not work if you start WSL from Windows Explorer. As described in the link above, it depends where you are calling WSL from. Hopefully somebody else adds to this answer. In the meantime, this solution works for me.






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      This is a partial answer from this link. If you have a shortcut in your desktop, right click on it, click in properties and then go to the options tab. To activate copy and paste, you need to click copy and paste using ctrl+shift+C|V checkbox. To highlight text, you need to enable(check mark) the edit mode checkbox. This was tested in WSL in Windows 10.



      Note that this is only a partial solution as this will not work if you start WSL from Windows Explorer. As described in the link above, it depends where you are calling WSL from. Hopefully somebody else adds to this answer. In the meantime, this solution works for me.






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        This is a partial answer from this link. If you have a shortcut in your desktop, right click on it, click in properties and then go to the options tab. To activate copy and paste, you need to click copy and paste using ctrl+shift+C|V checkbox. To highlight text, you need to enable(check mark) the edit mode checkbox. This was tested in WSL in Windows 10.



        Note that this is only a partial solution as this will not work if you start WSL from Windows Explorer. As described in the link above, it depends where you are calling WSL from. Hopefully somebody else adds to this answer. In the meantime, this solution works for me.






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        This is a partial answer from this link. If you have a shortcut in your desktop, right click on it, click in properties and then go to the options tab. To activate copy and paste, you need to click copy and paste using ctrl+shift+C|V checkbox. To highlight text, you need to enable(check mark) the edit mode checkbox. This was tested in WSL in Windows 10.



        Note that this is only a partial solution as this will not work if you start WSL from Windows Explorer. As described in the link above, it depends where you are calling WSL from. Hopefully somebody else adds to this answer. In the meantime, this solution works for me.







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