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25th Tue

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

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

  1. At first, you should install
    SIMBL.
  2. Download the zipped plugin file I mentioned above and expand it.
  3. Copy the extracted file "TerminalCopyOnSelect.bundle" to the plugin directory which is located at ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/
  4. 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.

Enjoy!

posted by takiuchi takiuchi on Tue 25 Nov 2008 at 19:10 with 8 comments
aljoscha aljoscha 03/11 11:55
Is there anything preventing you from making this work system-wide?
Aljoscha
swissarmychainsaw swissarmychainsaw 08/20 20:43
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 Roderick 08/24 15:57
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 staiano 03/25 02:42
Roderick you rock for recompiling it. Thanks.
tiancongxin tiancongxin 07/21 17:21
TerminalCopyOnSelect not work on OS X 'Lion' , could you solve this ? or provide a workaround ? screenshot: http://d.pr/P49p
falsefalse falsefalse 02/14 08:04
@tiancongxin try using this one https://github.com/falsefalse/terminalcopyonselect/downloads
staiano staiano 01/10 01:47
Any chance we can get a recompile for 10.9?
Spencer Spencer 04/08 07:15
You don't have to re-compile it, this version works on 10.9 (Mavericks) as long as you update the max supported version number for terminal.app. Command-click the TerminalCopyOnSelect.bundle and choose "Show Package contents." Open Contents/Info.plist in your text editor and change the version number to 326 under MaxBundleVersion.