I'd like to see new selection modes in GPM.  Such as:

1) A mode where you click on a given x,y text screen coordinate,
   drag the mouse, and when you let go of the key, a rectangle
   is selected.  Example: click on 10,10, drag to 20,20, and a
   selection rectangle appears over a rectangle with these four
   corners (10,10)-(10,20)-(20,20)-(20,10).

   This would be easier when you want to select a pop-up box, or
   a screen element that's boxed in.  One wouldn't have
   to select all the rows the pop-up was in, paste it elsewhere,
   then laboriously delete characters preceding and following.

   (I.E. just like selecting in xpaint, or the gimp.  Pixel mode,
   rather than continuous line mode.)

2) A mode where the mouse leaves a selection trail wherever it's
   moved.  This would be just like drawing lines in a paint program.
   The text selected would be the characters covered only, made to
   fit in the smallest blank background rectangle possible.

   Example:  suppose the screen looks like this:

 1
+--------------------------------+
|                                |1
|   h   o                        |
|    e l                         |
|     l                          |
|    e l                         |
|   h   o                        |
|                                |
|                                |
+--------------------------------+

   Then the user clicks at 2,2 and selects a straight diagonal
   to 6,6.  (I'll draw selected "pixels" with the '#'
   character.)  Note that we don't want to select the 'hello'
   that goes from 2,6 to 6,2.

 1
+--------------------------------+
|                                |1
|   #   o                        |
|    # l                         |
|     #                          |
|    e #                         |
|   h   #                        |
|                                |
|                                |
+--------------------------------+

    Once that's selected, the user opens up a text editor in
    another console and pastes.  The result would be:

 1
+--------------------------------+
|h                               |1
| e                              |
|  l                             |
|   l                            |
|    o                           |
|                                |
|                                |
|                                |
+--------------------------------+

    ...and the contents of the select buffer would be:

 1
+---------+
|h    <cr>|1
| e   <cr>|
|  l  <cr>|
|   l <cr>|
|    o<cr>|
+---------+


How would these modes be activated?  Maybe a key combination of
some sort.

Hope this inspires somebody...