Extremely hard to select portions of text
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Describe the solution you'd like?
In most other terminals, I can use shift/ctrl to append selected text. Can we make it possible in warp also. Currently if we let go of one selection, the next click deselects everything. This makes it hard when I am copying big blocks of text. And no I dont want to copy the entire block. Just a portion of it.
Also how do I change the cursor ? The default black arrow is hard to select with.
Ive attached examples of what I expect from another terminal.
Fedora terminal Easy Select append.webm
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How important is this feature to you?
4
Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:39cc6478-1249-4ee7-950b-c428edfeecd1
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Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating Warp's terminal text-selection handling and compare it with the attached Fedora Terminal example; done means users can append selections with Shift/Ctrl without losing earlier selections, and the cursor is easier to see.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100