I think most of this works for me in zsh. But also tmux can help with selection; I believe by default you use your prefix then open bracket (Ctrl-b + [) to put your self in selection mode. I have some configs to use vim bindings in selection mode.
Tmux selection:
# Yanking
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi v send-keys -X begin-selection
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi C-v send-keys -X rectangle-toggle
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send-keys -X copy-selection-and-cancel
zsh keybinding:
# Key Bindings
# set vim mode
bindkey -v
# create a zkbd compatible hash;
# to add other keys to this hash, see: man 5 terminfo
typeset -g -A key
key[Home]="${terminfo[khome]}"
key[End]="${terminfo[kend]}"
key[Insert]="${terminfo[kich1]}"
key[Backspace]="${terminfo[kbs]}"
key[Delete]="${terminfo[kdch1]}"
key[Up]="${terminfo[kcuu1]}"
key[Down]="${terminfo[kcud1]}"
key[Left]="${terminfo[kcub1]}"
key[Right]="${terminfo[kcuf1]}"
key[PageUp]="${terminfo[kpp]}"
key[PageDown]="${terminfo[knp]}"
key[Shift-Tab]="${terminfo[kcbt]}"
# setup key accordingly
[[ -n "${key[Home]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Home]}" beginning-of-line
[[ -n "${key[End]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[End]}" end-of-line
[[ -n "${key[Insert]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Insert]}" overwrite-mode
[[ -n "${key[Backspace]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Backspace]}" backward-delete-char
[[ -n "${key[Delete]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Delete]}" delete-char
[[ -n "${key[Up]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Up]}" up-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Down]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Down]}" down-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Left]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Left]}" backward-char
[[ -n "${key[Right]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Right]}" forward-char
[[ -n "${key[PageUp]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[PageUp]}" beginning-of-buffer-or-history
[[ -n "${key[PageDown]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[PageDown]}" end-of-buffer-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Shift-Tab]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Shift-Tab]}" reverse-menu-complete
# Finally, make sure the terminal is in application mode, when zle is
# active. Only then are the values from $terminfo valid.
if (( ${+terminfo[smkx]} && ${+terminfo[rmkx]} )); then
autoload -Uz add-zle-hook-widget
function zle_application_mode_start { echoti smkx }
function zle_application_mode_stop { echoti rmkx }
add-zle-hook-widget -Uz zle-line-init zle_application_mode_start
add-zle-hook-widget -Uz zle-line-finish zle_application_mode_stop
fi
# History - use current line up to cursor to search through history with arrow keys
autoload -Uz up-line-or-beginning-search down-line-or-beginning-search
zle -N up-line-or-beginning-search
zle -N down-line-or-beginning-search
[[ -n "${key[Up]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Up]}" up-line-or-beginning-search
[[ -n "${key[Down]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[Down]}" down-line-or-beginning-search
because it’s less work. i don’t have to strip out what a distro thinks i want. i don’t have to worry about major distro releases that might have changes that need manual intervention. if there are updates that need manual intervention, they’re small, easy to deal with and usually do not effect me. everything is well documented and standard. packages are installed with default settings/config (to my understanding), so i can easily read upstream documentation and not have to deal with weirdness. getting packages that are obscure is easier. i don’t have to worry about upstream having a fix, or supporting something that i need but my distro not having the update in their repo. it’s just simpler and easier to manage (for my use case)