# QuickSelectArgs

*Since: nightly builds only*

Activates [Quick Select Mode](../../../quickselect.md) but with the option
to override the global configuration.

This example shows how to pop up a quick select that is scoped solely to
a very basic http regex; it will only match those regexes regardless of
the default or the [quick_select_patterns](../config/quick_select_patterns.md)
configuration:

```lua
local wezterm = require 'wezterm'

return {
  keys = {
    {key="P", mods="CTRL",
     action=wezterm.action{QuickSelectArgs={
       patterns={
          "https?://\\S+"
       },
     }}
   },
  },
}
```

The `QuickSelectArgs` struct allows for the following fields:

* `patterns` - if present, completely overrides the normal set of patterns and uses only the patterns specified
* `alphabet` - if present, this alphabet is used instead of [quick_select_alphabet](../config/quick_select_alphabet.md)
* `action` - if present, this key assignment action is performed as if by [window:perform_action](../window/perform_action.md) when an item is selected.  The normal clipboard action is NOT performed in this case.
* `label` - if present, replaces the string `"copy"` that is shown at the bottom of the overlay; you can use this to indicate which action will happen if you are using `action`.

Here's an example that shows how to trigger some lua code to operate on the
quick-selected text, instead of copying it to the clipboard.  Here, we open
the selected URL using the web browser:

```lua
local wezterm = require 'wezterm'

return {
  keys = {
    {key="P", mods="CTRL",
     action=wezterm.action{QuickSelectArgs={
       label = "open url",
       patterns={
          "https?://\\S+"
       },
       action = wezterm.action_callback(function(window, pane)
          local url = window:get_selection_text_for_pane(pane)
          wezterm.log_info("opening: " .. url)
          wezterm.open_with(url)
       end)
     }}
   },
  },
}
```

See also [wezterm.open_with](../wezterm/open_with.md).