Bug#1019350: gnome-terminal: "Select All" merely selects the visible part of terminal contents

[kalle]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.44.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

when using the terminal to solve a problem or to perform some other rather
complex operation that cannot be described with a few sentences, I would like
to be able to save the complete terminal contents to a file for reference in
case I have to perform that same operation on a different machine.
"Copy as HTML" is especially nice because colors are preserved.

But sadly, "Select All" doesn't select the full contents of the scrollback
buffer as you would expect, but merely what is currently visible.

Well, you can select everything using the mouse, but this would be a pain for a
huge number of lines.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.14.0-2
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.14.0-2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.40.0-3
ii  gnome-terminal-data                           3.44.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     43~alpha-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.38.0-1
ii  libc6                                         2.34-7
ii  libdconf1                                     0.40.0-3
ii  libgcc-s1                                     12.2.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.73.3-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.34-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.50.9+ds-1
ii  libstdc++6                                    12.2.0-1
ii  libuuid1                                      2.38.1-1
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                 0.69.99-1
ii  libx11-6                                      2:1.8.1-2

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                               1.50.2-2
ii  nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal  3.44.1-1
ii  yelp                               42.1-2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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