[FEATURE]: Desktop copy should preserve basic formatting (bold, italic, lists, tables) but not colour #54003
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Describe the enhancement you want to request
When copying assistant text in the Desktop app, too much formatting is included — pasting into an email, doc, or Slack can yield white-on-white text, or other colour problems.
Request: copying chat text should place formatted content on the clipboard (e.g. a text/html flavour alongside text/plain via the standard clipboard APIs) that preserves basic markdown-supported structure:
- bold, italic
- headings
- ordered/unordered lists
- tables
- code (inline and blocks)
- links
- blockquotes
Explicitly out of scope: colour. Syntax-highlighting colours, theme colours, and background tints should be stripped so pasted text inherits the target document's styling. Formatting only — no colour.
Related (closed by stale bot, but never implemented for Desktop): #10693 (copy as rich text for Google Docs/Notion), #18967 (copy format options: Markdown and email-ready HTML). Unlike #18967 this is about the default copy behaviour rather than a dropdown of formats, and it specifies that colour must not be carried over.
Use case: pasting a model's answer into documentation, email, or a ticket with structure intact, without carrying the app's syntax-highlight palette into the destination.
Activity
opencode-agent commentedon Oct 8, 2026
Thanks for the detailed request, @dalin-!
To restate it: when you copy assistant text in the Desktop app, you'd like the clipboard to get an HTML version alongside the plain text. That version would keep the basic markdown structure (bold and italic, headings, lists, tables, code, links and blockquotes) but drop all colours, so the pasted text takes on the styling of wherever you paste it. At the moment, copying a message only puts plain text on the clipboard.
Maintainers will look at this when they plan future work. Related earlier requests and attempts, all closed: