microsoft / microsoft/terminal

Add support for touchscreen selection

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Since May 12, 2020.

Area-Input Area-TerminalControl Issue-Task Product-Terminal
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Description

Description of the new feature/enhancement

I'm a Surface pro user and sometimes need to use CLI tools without bothering to pick up the keyboard (although it's a mess to type with on-screen keyboard), but it turns out that Windows Terminal is not optimized for touchscreen at all.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

As far as I can tell, the following need to be implemented:

  1. Automatically popup on-screen keyboard and resize the window to fit it on touch.
  2. Long press to select/copy/paste.
  3. Zoom with finger gestures (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3149)

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