microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Offer information about the key commands for copy/paste the first time you press ctrl c/v
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
Have some kind of popup which lets you know that you can use ctrl + shift + c/v the first time a user presses either of those key commands. I'm a fresh convert from macOS and eventually found out you could right click to paste, but it too searching and finding https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/968 till I found out the key commands.
There's a case for when you ctrl + c to close a process, but I think showing it once is an acceptable trade-off (you might also know if there's a running process which it could close) and for ctrl + v that's a NOOP, so doing something there is an easy win
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
Probably not relevant
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Begin by locating the terminal's handling for Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, then define a one-time informational popup for those commands and verify that it does not disrupt process interruption or paste behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100