microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Copy on Select ignore trailing whitespaces
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
While copying on select, auto ignore trailing whitespaces on each line.
Why?
In my .vimrc, I draw 80 column and 120 column line via background color like this:

function! SetColumnWarnOnResized()
highlight Normal ctermbg=NONE
if &columns > 120
let &colorcolumn="81,".join(range(120, &columns), ",") " Set the column warns on 80 and 120+
else
let &colorcolumn="81" " Set the column warns on 80
endif
endfunction
au VimResized * call SetColumnWarnOnResized()
call SetColumnWarnOnResized()
When I select and copy these words in the screenshot above, Windows Terminal will fill my clipboard with many whitespaces like this (notice that wired whitespaces):
Some texts here...
And here... Notice the 80 col line in my vim --------------------------------------------->
And the 120 col line ================================================================================================>
And this only happend sometimes (not always), I don't know if this is a bug?
Related issues
This issues may relatives to these issues:
- #2944
- #3088
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the selection and clipboard behavior in Windows Terminal with Vim's colored columns, including cases where the issue occurs only sometimes. Read related issues #2944 and #3088 for prior context, then trace the copy-on-select path. Done means copied lines consistently omit trailing whitespace without changing meaningful internal or leading spaces.
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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
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100