Insert Mode? Mark mode #4367

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opened 2026-01-30 23:45:16 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @unuunc on GitHub (Oct 9, 2019).

How about having some kind of insert mode , such that screen can be abstracted as text and we can select some text from anywhere?

So , say I am doing git pull , it failed throwing error that "error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:"

Now I want to get the name of that file I have to use mouse to go up and copy and paste the file name , instead if I have some kind of insert mode , the terminal will behave as text and I can move my cursor up , select and copy relevant line, press some kind of escape sequence and paste the copied text in next command.

This is Quick Edit mode / Mark mode in command line

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Reference: starred/terminal#4367