Feature: add copy on select (per Unix terminals)

[mikemaccana]

Similar to #523, except the reverse: selected data in the terminal is not copyable to other apps.

Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)

Can't tell you, because when I select it it won't paste into this form!

But using another terminal app (and fixing the command to work with Windows default shell):

$ #[Environment]::OSVersion.VersionString
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.18890.0

What you're doing and what's happening: (Copy & paste specific commands and their output, or include screen shots)

Both:

• Highlighting text to select it then pasting it fails
• Highlighting text, pressing Ctrl C (which shouldn't be necessary) and then pasting it fails

What's wrong / what should be happening instead:

Different data is pasted

It should be pasting whatever was selected in the terminal.

Here's the options provided by Fluent Terminal:

[zadjii-msft]

@carlos-zamora is working on this currently :)

[nizos]

I have no problem doing this. This is how I copy/paste:
Mouse left click and hold to select text.
Release left click.
Mouse right click once on selected text.
It is now in your clipboard.

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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.86]

[mikemaccana]

@nizos Selecting should copy the text to the clipboard immediately per any other terminal. Doing additional steps is a workaround, not a fix.

[nizos]

@mikemaccana I have read the bug report. I just didn’t know that the terminal is supposed to copy anything selected immediately. Where did you read that it is supposed to work that way? I have always used the method I described to copy text in command prompt.

[mikemaccana]

@nizos Copying immediately on select has been default on Unix terminals for at least 21 years, but probably longer than that.

[zadjii-msft]

Clearly, lots of people have varying opinions on how they want their text to be copy/pasteable from the terminal. That's why we're hoping to make it a feature that's customizable to however you like :)

[carlos-zamora]

Yeah. I'm working on the keybindings. Really just need to make sure I send the VT sequence.

As for the copying immediately on selection, I'll be sure to make a setting and add that functionality.