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Support multiple selections of terminal contents #14993

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opened 2026-01-31 04:25:27 +00:00 by claunia · 1 comment
claunia commented 2026-01-31 04:25:27 +00:00
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Originally created by @Varriount on GitHub (Aug 27, 2021).

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Allow creating and copying from multiple selections in the terminal.

Proposed Implementation Details

The concept of a "selection" is expanded from meaning "a single region of selected text in the terminal buffer" to "one or more regions of selected text in the terminal buffer".

When a (possibly user-defined) trigger or key is active, attempting to select an unselected region of text in the terminal will not dismiss the current selection (if there is one). Rather, the newly-selected region of text will be added as a component of the current selection. If the aforementioned trigger becomes inactive, attempts to selected unselected text will invoke the normal selection behavior (the current selection is dismissed, and a new selection is created).

When a selection with multiple regions is copied to the clipboard, the selected regions' contents are concatenated together, with a (possibly user-defined) delimiter, such as a newline or space.

Points for Consideration

  • Should any additional data regarding multiple selections be added to the clipboard when a multi-region selection is copied?
  • What should the default delimiter be when concatenating text from multiple regions? While a newline is the de-facto standard used by editors* supporting multi-region selections, this may not be appropriate for a terminal application. Users looking to paste the contents of a multi-region selection back into the terminal may want that contents delimited by spaces. An example would be a user copying file names from program output, then pasting them as arguments for a command.
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claunia commented 2026-01-31 04:25:28 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 30, 2021):

I think this is a pretty cool idea honestly. I really come to rely on this in Sublime pretty frequently. We could probably just follow what VsCode does with it's multiple selections.

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 30, 2021): I think this is a pretty cool idea honestly. I really come to rely on this in Sublime pretty frequently. We could probably just follow what VsCode does with it's multiple selections.
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