Selecting text via shift+directional key not working as expected (arrow-, home-, end-key)
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🖼 Platform: Windows
🤯 Type: Compatibility
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Description
- Write any text in shell
- using shift+home key does nothing (expected: select text from current position to home position)
- using shift+end key does nothing (expected: select text from current position to end of line)
- using shift+left arrow marks text visually, but copy doesn't work with a selection made that way.
Selecting text via mouse looks different (selection color differs) and works.
Encountered with powershell.exe
Hyper a35f39f
Electron 1.4.15
win32 x64 10.0.14393
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in Hyper on Windows with powershell.exe, using Shift+Home, Shift+End, and Shift+Left, then inspect the terminal keyboard-selection and copy handling. Done means each keyboard-created selection has the expected range, appearance, and copy behavior, matching mouse selection.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- electron, powershell, typescript
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100