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Feature Request: PuTTY style text selection #1496

@lancenz

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@lancenz

Please, please (please!) add a setting to enable PuTTY style text selection behavior in the new terminal.

  1. Randomly left clicking on a terminal should not select 1 character, it should just focus (or keep focus if already focused) the window. Nowhere in windows other than terminal does clicking select a character. This is really annoying in multi-monitor scenarios when you are unsure if a window is focused and you click in and it selects a character...

  2. Selecting text with your mouse should automatically copy to the clipboard onmouseup, there are not many scenarios when selecting text in a terminal does not result in copying to the clipboard so it is weird to have to right-click on press enter to copy.

  3. Selected text should automatically be deselected when the clipboard changes, quite helpful to visually see that the selected text is no longer in the clipboard. Surprisingly useful.

  4. Right click should always be paste (not copy!), regardless of if text is currently selected or not. Very annoying, especially with the first issue, if you select a window which was already focused a character is selected, then right clicking to paste ends up copying the selected character.. grr!

  5. Selection should not be lost when typing in the terminal, if you select some text then type a command, it is helpful for the selection to remain selected. This way you know what is in the clipboard (if the 3rd suggestion is implemented).

Please, please, please implement these, thanks! :)

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    Area-UserInterfaceIssues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or TerminalIssue-FeatureComplex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work.Needs-Tag-FixDoesn't match tag requirementsResolution-DuplicateThere's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing.

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