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Terminal: Support keyboard text selection & navigation #715

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@markusamshove

Hello,

I'm using tmux on Linux machines and ConEmu on Windows machines and I really love that I can do text selection with the keyboard.

In ConEmu, there is a keybinding for "Start text selection (like text editors)", whereas in tmux there is the same thing with <prefix><b> (I think that is default), where I get a cursor that I can move with the arrow keys around the console window.
While doing this, I can select text while holding shift and (in case of ConEmu) press ENTER to copy the text into the clipboard and end the text selection.
It can also be compared with Vim's visual mode.

It would be nice if the new Windows Terminal could support this out of the box, so I can use it in e.g. PowerShell :-)

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Area-TerminalControlIssues pertaining to the terminal control (input, selection, keybindings, mouse interaction, etc.)Issue-FeatureComplex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work.Priority-1A description (P1)Product-TerminalThe new Windows Terminal.Resolution-Fix-CommittedFix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release.

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