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Is there any short-cut/keyboard command to highlight, i.e., select, non-consecutive text in gedit?

For instance, say I want to highlight the words there and text in the previous sentence at the same time so that I can copy the information.

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  • In what software?
    – Lucio
    Aug 2, 2013 at 3:05
  • I am trying to copy the text from gedit. Aug 2, 2013 at 3:06
  • Do you want to only highlight the text (set it to different color) or select it?
    – Lucio
    Aug 2, 2013 at 3:13
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    No, not to change the color. To simply select the text. I have data that are arranged in columns in text files that I have extracted from calculation output files. I want to copy the data directly without copying anything else from the lines of the extracted data so that I can input in an excel spreadsheet. Thus, I would like to select and copy particular data that are not consecutive to speed up my process. I hope that clarifies, entirely, the situation I am having. However, I would just like to know in general. Aug 2, 2013 at 3:32
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    I think you could do this better by using a spreadsheet directly. While importing data, most spreadsheet programs allow you to specify delimiters to determine how the text is arranged in columns.
    – user25656
    Aug 2, 2013 at 3:55

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No sorry, only by double clicking can this work. If you can scroll the text use control+shift+arrow to highlight the word in the direction of the arrow.

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