TerminalCopyOnSelect: The SIMBL plugin for Terminal.app enabling us to copy on selection

November 2008

October December

25th Tue

I made a SIMBL plugin for Terminal.app which enable us to copy on selection. Here is the plugin named TerminalCopyOnSelect.

TerminalCopyOnSelect.bundle.zip

INSTALLATION

At first, you should install SIMBL.
Download the zipped plugin file I mentioned above and expand it.
Copy the extracted file "TerminalCopyOnSelect.bundle" to the plugin directory which is located at ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/
Terminate all processes of Terminal.app and restart it.

You're done! Now you can get copied selected text from the terminal when you released mouse button on it.

You are also able to disable this feature by turning off the following menu "Copy On Select".

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Finally, I opened the source of this plugin on the GitHub under the MIT license.

http://github.com/genki/terminalcopyonselect/tree/master

Enjoy!

posted by

takiuchi on Tue 25 Nov 2008 at 19:11 with 5 comments

Comments:

aljoscha almost 2 years ago.

Is there anything preventing you from making this work system-wide? Aljoscha

swissarmychainsaw over 1 year ago.

How do I get around this error message? Error Terminal 2.1 (v272) has not been tested with the plugin TerminalCopyOnSelect (null) (v0.1.0). As a precaution, it has not been loaded. Please contact the plugin developer for further information.

Roderick over 1 year ago.

I've compiled the current version from github, this has the current Terminal version number in it so it will prevent the "has not been tested" error. You can get it from http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ .

staiano 11 months ago.

Roderick you rock for recompiling it. Thanks.

tiancongxin 7 months ago.

TerminalCopyOnSelect not work on OS X 'Lion' , could you solve this ? or provide a workaround ? screenshot: http://d.pr/P49p