Developers who waste millions of man-hours by making idiotic decisions such as Christian Persch de-facto removing "select all" from GNOME terminal deserve punishment. Perhaps this will prevent them from ever making such idiotic decisions again.

Serves you right for using gnome.

@spongessuck damn right, bro!

Idiotic decision...

Just looked it up.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/...

So the Select All could crash all instances due to the issue that select all in combination with a large / unlimited scroll buffer caused overflows and is probably not the best idea. Instead of cutting off at a random number, they disabled the feature.

If you don't like it, become a part of the community and fix it.

Most likely they're lacking resources to fix it "properly" - and insulting the few ones who still work on it isn't helping either.

Well, Gnome is shit and the Gnome devs are assholes. Nothing new.

Gnome is not feature-rich. Gnome is modern, stable and pretty, but covering as many use cases as possible is not among their goals.

Also this is a tricky feature to get right, because the use cases aren't very clear and so the exact desired behaviour in case of a too large buffer is pretty uncertain.

@IntrusionCM The scroll-back buffer is already cut off at an arbitrary number, they could pick a different arbitrary number (and perhaps make it configurable) for this.

@lorentz yeah... Of course. Just that there needs to be the manpower to do that... It just rubbed me in a very wrong way cause it's the typical: "I can think of a solution to my problem, why don't THEY invest time and money to fix MY problem that way... Shitheads" type of comment.

Then people wonder why maintainers become misanthropic arseholes, which - given the amount of insults and crap these maintainers received - is no wonder at all.