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[FEATURE]: Copy message as raw markdown #14041
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There currently seems no way to copy the LLM's markdown response as markdown. Highlighting the message and selecting strips all the markdown formatting, making it somewhat useless.
Conveniently there's a UI for clicking and copying the message text of the original prompt:
But this seems to only work for the first message, not subsequent ones.
Something like this, or a shortcut like the c key in crush would be nice to be able to copy the entire message contents (of a clicked message) in its raw format.
Reacted by Kwami Agbodji, Haaris Rahman and Oskar Jagodziński
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github-actions commentedon Feb 17, 2026
This issue might be a duplicate of an existing feature request. Please check:
nicopujia commentedon Mar 4, 2026
ctrl+p → copy last assistant message
or
ctrl+x y
taoeffect commentedon Mar 5, 2026
Thanks @nicopujia, that's super helpful!
I'll still leave the issue open though because I feel like you should be able to do this for all messages, not just the first and the last.
MicahZoltu commentedon Mar 14, 2026
This doesn't appear to work in OpenCode TUI in VSCode (with VSCode extension installed). ctrl-p just opens VSCode command pallet.
/copysays it copies history, but nothing ends up on clipboard.wuxiaoqiang12 commentedon Mar 18, 2026
I also want this feature like Alt + m in gemini cli.
andrewdunndev commentedon Mar 24, 2026
I'd like to take a crack at this if there's interest. I filed #18967 (now closed as duplicate) with a concrete implementation approach:
Replace the single copy
IconButtoninmessage-part.tsxwith aDropdownMenu(already exists inpackages/ui). Three options: Copy Text (current behavior), Copy Markdown (raw markdown astext/plain), Copy for Email (sanitized HTML vianavigator.clipboard.write()withtext/htmlMIME type so Gmail/Outlook render it correctly).The email HTML sanitization strips all classes/styles and inlines email-safe CSS on key elements (monospace code blocks, bordered tables, styled blockquotes, blue links, Arial 14px base font). I've built and tested this pattern in another project.
Scoped entirely to
packages/ui/src/components/message-part.tsx. No API changes. Happy to submit a PR if a maintainer can confirm this approach is acceptable.RiAnBee commentedon Mar 26, 2026
I want to add a concrete TUI use case here, which is closely related to #10693 but has a slightly different priority.
When I copy assistant output by selecting text directly in the terminal/TUI (for example with the mouse), what gets copied is the rendered plain text, not the underlying markdown source.
That causes serious problems when pasting into markdown/block-based editors such as SiYuan:
So from the user's perspective, the TUI is showing a nicely rendered "poster", but the clipboard only receives flattened text, not the "blueprint" needed by markdown-aware editors.
For tools like Google Docs / Notion, rich text copy is useful (#10693).
But for markdown-native editors,
Copy as Markdownis even more important than rich text.What would help most:
Suggested copy modes would be:
In short: this issue is not only about convenience; it is about preserving the semantic structure of assistant output when leaving the TUI.
github-actions commentedon Jul 4, 2026
To stay organized issues are automatically closed after 60 days of no activity. If the issue is still relevant please open a new one.
monarchwadia commentedon Jul 29, 2026
Wanted to bump this. Still an issue.
taoeffect commentedon Aug 10, 2026
Followup opened #41609