No way to select text when mouse aware app is being run
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Description
Verified with fresh 3.0.0, but it's been here for a while — since some previous release.
It's typical for terminal emulators to allow user to bypass mouse awareness of an app with using modifier when selecting text, typically it's Alt (iTerm2 does so), or Shift (most of Linux terminals do). MacOS native Terminal provides a shortcut to turn on/off mouse bypass (Cmd_R, IIRC).
How to check: running tmux probably is the most simple way. Trying to select text there would be handled by tmux itself, not by Hyper.
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in Hyper with tmux, then locate the terminal mouse-selection handling. Compare selecting normally with the modifier behavior described for iTerm2 and Linux terminals. Done means a documented modifier lets users select text in a mouse-aware application without tmux handling the selection.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100