Ability to use normal copy and paste

[aaronfultonnz]

Often I find myself wanting to copy a part of the terminal output. I always forget that select ctrl-c does not work for ninjaterm and that you have to use the copy button, which then copies everything (which I then have to put into notepad to get just the part I want). It would be good if select, ctrl-c worked nicely.

[AndreKR]

opened 2 hours ago

Haha, I literally just came here to ask how to copy.

[gbmhunter]

You can copy with Ctrl-Shift-C (I decided not to use Ctrl-C because that sends the ASCII End of Text char ETC like normal terminals, normally then converted to SIGINT or a similar "quit" function). Like wise you can paste with Ctrl-Shift-V. However, there is a bug with this in that it doesn't work if part of the selection is no longer in the viewport, as for efficiency reasons text outside the viewport is removed from the DOM, and this breaks the selection logic.

Perhaps the best solution would be to fix Ctrl-Shift-C and make it work properly for off-screen selections (Ctrl-Shift-C is pretty standard for copy in terminals)? And perhaps make it more obvious that this is how to copy text (I could add a tooltip to the copy button which explains how you can also use Ctrl-Shift-C).

Or perhaps Ctrl-C could both copy text to the clipboard AND send the ETC char...although this would be departing from standard terminal behaviour.

[aaronfultonnz]

I was not aware of the Ctrl-Shift-C convention. Adding a tooltip, I think, is a good compromise. I've been using this since you pointed it out, and it works great.