On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
xterm should have a way to run a user-specified shell command
on some event. For instance, xterm could define a new action
run-command(command [, ...?]). The command would get context
information, either as an argument or in standard input, such
as what is under the mouse pointer (so that the user doesn't
need to make a selection first).
That's off in that gray area where (disregarding the double standards
applied to gnome-terminal, konsole, etc), the security team is likely to
limit or suppress the feature. Lacking some discussion with those people,
yes it's a simple feature, but not certain you'd get it in Debian.