Quick Answer: How Do You Highlight in Linux Terminal?

shift + ← or shift + → to highlight text. shift + ctrl + ← or shift + ctrl + → to highlight an entire word.

How do you highlight in Linux?

Highlight recognizes keywords, numbers, strings, comments, symbols and preprocessor directives. It supports about 160 programming languages, which are defined in Lua scripts. It’s easily possible to enhance highlight’s database of programming languages and colour themes. See the README file for details.

How do I select in terminal?

To select and copy a region of text using the keyboard in Terminal, select Edit -> Keyboard Selection -> Start Keyboard Selection, or (much easier) press Command-Option-Return. Nothing will appear to have changed, but the arrow keys will now move the cursor away from its current row, and back up into the prior output.