Detect support for OSC 52 using the device attributes report#4539
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This is an extension agreed upon by modern terminals to indicate that they support copying to the clipboard with XTerm's OSC 52 sequence. On terminals that can disable clipboard access, this extension is only reported when writing to the clipboard is actually allowed, so this is a more reliable indicator than the Ms terminfo capability.
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@nicm I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind, but I've tested on Windows Terminal by setting my |
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Indicating support for `OSC 52` like this is quite a recent initiative, but terminal-side support has already been merged in foot, WezTerm, Contour and Windows Terminal. To me, it seems like a much more sensible interface than the existing `XTGETTCAP` and `XTQALLOWED` methods (although dte does already support the former). See also: * contour-terminal/contour#1761 (comment) * https://github.com/contour-terminal/vt-extensions/blob/master/clipboard-extension.md#feature-detection * https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/2130 * https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/pull/7046/files * microsoft/terminal#19034 * tmux/tmux#4532 * tmux/tmux#4539 Additional context for why I consider `XTGETTCAP` flawed: * https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1701 * ghostty-org/ghostty#1699
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Applied to OpenBSD now, will be in GitHub later. Thanks! |
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Detect support for OSC 52 using the device attributes report
This is an extension agreed upon by modern terminals to indicate that
they support copying to the clipboard with XTerm's OSC 52 sequence.
On terminals that can disable clipboard access, this extension is only
reported when writing to the clipboard is actually allowed, so this is
a more reliable indicator than the Ms terminfo capability.
Fixes #4532