From 742d57ecf15e24f6a5f2133a81b6c70acc8ff03c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 22:25:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add function for setting the text selections

---
 src/vte/vteterminal.h |  4 ++++
 src/vtegtk.cc         | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/vte/vteterminal.h b/src/vte/vteterminal.h
index 9701320d..a11b4cb7 100644
--- a/src/vte/vteterminal.h
+++ b/src/vte/vteterminal.h
@@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ _VTE_PUBLIC
 void vte_terminal_select_all(VteTerminal *terminal) _VTE_CXX_NOEXCEPT _VTE_GNUC_NONNULL(1);
 _VTE_PUBLIC
 void vte_terminal_unselect_all(VteTerminal *terminal) _VTE_CXX_NOEXCEPT _VTE_GNUC_NONNULL(1);
+_VTE_PUBLIC
+void vte_terminal_select_text(VteTerminal *terminal, long start_col, long start_row,
+			      long end_col, long end_row) _VTE_CXX_NOEXCEPT _VTE_GNUC_NONNULL(1);
+
 
 /* By-word selection */
 _VTE_PUBLIC
diff --git a/src/vtegtk.cc b/src/vtegtk.cc
index bdf36eac..d9e9f2ed 100644
--- a/src/vtegtk.cc
+++ b/src/vtegtk.cc
@@ -2390,6 +2390,26 @@ vte_terminal_unselect_all(VteTerminal *terminal)
         IMPL(terminal)->deselect_all();
 }
 
+/**
+ * vte_terminal_select_text:
+ * @terminal: a #VteTerminal
+ * @start_col: the starting column for the selection
+ * @start_row: the starting row for the selection
+ * @end_col: the end column for the selection
+ * @end_row: the end row for the selection
+ *
+ * Sets the current selection region.
+ */
+void
+vte_terminal_select_text(VteTerminal *terminal,
+		         long start_col, long start_row,
+			 long end_col, long end_row) noexcept
+{
+	g_return_if_fail (VTE_IS_TERMINAL (terminal));
+
+        IMPL(terminal)->select_text(start_col, start_row, end_col, end_row);
+}
+
 /**
  * vte_terminal_get_cursor_position:
  * @terminal: a #VteTerminal