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The length of IPv6 addresses is a minor usability problem from a devops perspective. I don't feel like this is a solution, but something to help ease the pain of this would be nice.

Another issue is that nearly all terminal emulators are (so far) too stupid to auto-highlight an IPv6 address on double-click. They all break on : -- highlighting only 16 bits of the address. Annoying.



That's often configurable. For example, in xterm:

> -cc characterclassrange:value[,...]

> This sets classes indicated by the given ranges for using in selecting by words. See the section specifying character classes. and discussion of the charClass resource.

(I haven't tried using this myself.)




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