Is it possible to select text in zathura without the mouse?

Question

It is kind of annoying to use the mouse every time I have to copy text from a PDF in zathura.

I was wondering if it is possible to select and copy text in zathura similar to Vim's visual mode? I did a Google search but couldn't find anything.

I use zathura-pdf-mupdf on manjaro with xfce.

Grolier

nope. the quickest thing is the double click bottom-right-ish and drag a little to select the entire page (double clicking starts selection from the top-left to where your cursor is), but this doesn't select the last one or two lines even if you select the entire page. Selection in zathura REALLY needs some work. – Corazoncorban

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Answer 1

As of Jan '20, the zathura official documentation is being reworked and does not contain anything related to usage.

Looking at the man docs, it seems that zathura does not come with select / copy keybindings that mimic Vim's visual mode. The closest that comes to it is scrolling with h, k, j, l. Here's the full list of mouse and key bindings.

Feel free to open a feature request.

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