How to select text for copy and paste in Chrome by keyboard not using the mouse?
As I am a user of vimium, it turns out I had the capabilities already shipped with it even though I wasn't aware that it existed.
- Search the starting point by:
/yourSeach
- Press enter.
- Enable visual mode via:
v
, and visual mode on a line basis via Shift + V - Select text by vim navigation keys, aka: h, j, k, l, b, e, w, $ (I especially like shift + w, as it goes to the end of the next word)
- Yank via
y
You now can switch the context and paste the text via Ctrl+V
There also seems to be a caret mode, yet as of yet I somtimes don't see the current place of the cursor, which is why I prefer the search-first approach as of now.
Use the arrow keys to navigate the page.
To highlight text on a page with a keyboard use Shift and a direction, up is up a line down is down a line. Left is left one character and right is right one character.
Copy is Ctrl + C and paste is Ctrl + V.
The only way I could find to move the selection cursor is using find to highlight the first word of the text you want to copy, press Ctrl + F, type your word, to highlight it in the page and press ESC to leave find
then use the Shift plus arrows to highlight the rest.
Finally to swap from Chrome
to a Terminal
use Alt + Tab