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WalkthroughAdded rendered-text selection for live and frozen panes. Added themed selection colors, clipboard injection, ChangesPane Selection and Copying
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Selecting text in a non-focused pane may copy nothing, and rebuilding or unfreezing a pane may leave stale text selected, which can result in incorrect clipboard contents. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness issues are fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
participant SharpMUTermApp
participant PaneControl
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Operator->>PaneControl: Drag across pane output
PaneControl->>SharpMUTermApp: Provide selected rendered text
Operator->>SharpMUTermApp: Press Ctrl+C or invoke term:copy
SharpMUTermApp->>Clipboard: Write selected text
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In `@src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs`:
- Around line 7797-7820: In src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs at lines
7797-7820, verify whether MarkupControl.SetContent clears selection; if not,
call ClearPaneSelection(windowId) in BuildFrozenContent and ToggleFreeze’s
unfreeze branch, matching RepaintPane before FeedRange. In CLAUDE.md at lines
173-176, revise the documentation to acknowledge that BuildFrozenContent and
ToggleFreeze also re-feed tracked pane controls, rather than describing
RepaintPane as the sole seam.
Apply the same fix in `@CLAUDE.md` around lines 173 - 176.
- Around line 7769-7795: The CopyFocusedSelection method should read selected
text from _window.SelectionManager.GetSelectedText(), using an empty string when
no selection exists, instead of resolving the active window and frozen-pane
selection. Clear the relevant selection before BuildFrozenContent and before the
unfreeze FeedRange path so MarkupControl.SetContent cannot retain stale
selections after content replacement.
In `@tests/SharpMUTerm.Tui.Tests/PaneSelectionTests.cs`:
- Around line 1-187: Add tests covering selection in a non-focused pane: drag
using another pane’s identifier, then verify both term:copy and CtrlC copy the
selected text. Add a test that selects text, toggles freeze through the relevant
command, and verifies the selection is cleared after the pane rebuilds; fix the
underlying selection handling if either scenario fails.
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| private bool CopyFocusedSelection() | ||
| { | ||
| var windowId = ActiveWindowId(); | ||
| var text = PaneSelection(windowId); | ||
| if (text.Length == 0 | ||
| && _frozenPanes.TryGetValue(windowId, out var frozen) | ||
| && frozen.HasSelection) | ||
| { | ||
| text = frozen.GetSelectedText(); | ||
| } | ||
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| if (text.Length == 0) | ||
| { | ||
| RefuseCommand("nothing selected — drag across a pane's output to select it"); | ||
| return true; | ||
| } | ||
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| if (_clipboard is null) | ||
| { | ||
| RefuseCommand("no clipboard is configured, so nothing was copied"); | ||
| return true; | ||
| } | ||
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| _clipboard(text); | ||
| Notice($"copied {text.Length} characters", MessageSeverity.Info); | ||
| return true; | ||
| } |
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Use the window selection manager for copy.
SelectionManager owns the single active selection. A mouse drag does not update _workspace.Layout.FocusedPaneId, so the current lookup can miss a selection in another pane. Use _window.SelectionManager.GetSelectedText() ?? string.Empty instead of resolving ActiveWindowId().
Clear the selection before BuildFrozenContent and the unfreeze FeedRange path. MarkupControl.SetContent does not clear selection, so a selected frozen or live control can retain stale text after its content is replaced.
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In `@src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs` around lines 7769 - 7795, The
CopyFocusedSelection method should read selected text from
_window.SelectionManager.GetSelectedText(), using an empty string when no
selection exists, instead of resolving the active window and frozen-pane
selection. Clear the relevant selection before BuildFrozenContent and before the
unfreeze FeedRange path so MarkupControl.SetContent cannot retain stale
selections after content replacement.
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| /// <summary> | ||
| /// Drops any live selection in a pane. Called wherever the buffer under one moves: a chrome row going | ||
| /// in or coming out (the freeze bar, the away bar, the <c>NEW</c> divider) and the whole-buffer re-feed | ||
| /// behind the timestamp column. | ||
| /// <para> | ||
| /// The selection is anchored to display rows, and this client mutates buffers mid-stream — so a | ||
| /// selection left alone across an insert describes rows that have shifted under it, and the highlight | ||
| /// on screen then marks text nobody dragged over. Dropping is the honest answer: a gesture whose | ||
| /// subject has moved is a gesture that is over. | ||
| /// </para> | ||
| /// </summary> | ||
| private void ClearPaneSelection(string windowId) | ||
| { | ||
| if (_panes.TryGetValue(windowId, out var pane)) | ||
| { | ||
| pane.ClearSelection(); | ||
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| if (_frozenPanes.TryGetValue(windowId, out var frozen)) | ||
| { | ||
| frozen.ClearSelection(); | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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ClearPaneSelection is wired into only one of the call sites that re-feed a tracked pane control via FeedRange, and the documentation states a guarantee the code does not fully provide.
src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs#L7797-L7820: AddClearPaneSelection(windowId)toBuildFrozenContentand toToggleFreeze's unfreeze branch, matching the call already present inRepaintPane, once it is confirmed thatMarkupControl.SetContentdoes not already clear a selection on its own.CLAUDE.md#L173-L176: Correct the claim thatRepaintPaneis "the one seam that re-feeds a pane" —BuildFrozenContentandToggleFreezealso callFeedRangeon the same tracked controls — once the code fix above lands or the behavior is otherwise confirmed safe.
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In `@src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs` around lines 7797 - 7820, In
src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs at lines 7797-7820, verify whether
MarkupControl.SetContent clears selection; if not, call
ClearPaneSelection(windowId) in BuildFrozenContent and ToggleFreeze’s unfreeze
branch, matching RepaintPane before FeedRange. In CLAUDE.md at lines 173-176,
revise the documentation to acknowledge that BuildFrozenContent and ToggleFreeze
also re-feed tracked pane controls, rather than describing RepaintPane as the
sole seam.
Apply the same fix in `@CLAUDE.md` around lines 173 - 176.
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| using SharpConsoleUI.Drivers; | ||
| using SharpMUTerm.Graphics; | ||
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| namespace SharpMUTerm.Tui.Tests; | ||
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| /// <summary> | ||
| /// Selecting a pane's output with the mouse and copying it. | ||
| /// <para> | ||
| /// The terminal's own selection cannot do this job: it selects a terminal <em>row</em>, so on a vertical | ||
| /// split a drag returns the left pane's text, the divider and the right pane's unrelated output | ||
| /// concatenated — and a pane is narrower than the row, so a logical line wraps and comes back with hard | ||
| /// newlines injected at the wrap points. Both are <c>UrlDetector</c>'s problem one layer over: the | ||
| /// decision has to be made where the pane's line is known to end. | ||
| /// </para> | ||
| /// <para> | ||
| /// Every gesture here goes through the control's real <c>ProcessMouseEvent</c>, because the framework | ||
| /// only registers its driver-mouse handler inside <c>Run()</c> — which no test calls. That is the same | ||
| /// limitation <c>SimulatePaneClick</c> documents, and the reason a drag needs a seam of its own. | ||
| /// </para> | ||
| /// </summary> | ||
| /// <remarks>Serialised: rendering redirects the process-global <c>Console.Out</c>.</remarks> | ||
| [NotInParallel] | ||
| public class PaneSelectionTests | ||
| { | ||
| private const int Width = 120; | ||
| private const int Height = 32; | ||
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| private static readonly TerminalCapabilities Headless = | ||
| new(GraphicsProtocol.None, supportsTrueColor: true, supportsKittyGraphics: false, supportsSixel: false); | ||
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| private static SharpMUTermApp Demo() | ||
| { | ||
| Console.SetIn(TextReader.Null); | ||
| return new SharpMUTermApp(DemoScene.Build(), Headless, new HeadlessConsoleDriver(Width, Height)); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// <summary>The main window, rendered, with a known line of output to drag across.</summary> | ||
| private static SharpMUTermApp Rendered() | ||
| { | ||
| var app = Demo(); | ||
| app.RenderSnapshot(); | ||
| return app; | ||
| } | ||
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| /// <summary> | ||
| /// The same, with somewhere for a copy to land. The writer is caller-supplied and null by default — | ||
| /// the <c>save</c>/<c>logRoot</c>/browser-launcher family — so a test that does not ask for one | ||
| /// provably leaves the real system clipboard alone. | ||
| /// </summary> | ||
| private static (SharpMUTermApp App, List<string> Copied) WithClipboard() | ||
| { | ||
| Console.SetIn(TextReader.Null); | ||
| var copied = new List<string>(); | ||
| var app = new SharpMUTermApp( | ||
| DemoScene.Build(), Headless, new HeadlessConsoleDriver(Width, Height), clipboard: copied.Add); | ||
| app.RenderSnapshot(); | ||
| return (app, copied); | ||
| } | ||
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| private static ConsoleKeyInfo CtrlC => | ||
| new('\0', ConsoleKey.C, shift: false, alt: false, control: true); | ||
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| public async Task CtrlCCopiesWhatWasSelected() | ||
| { | ||
| var (app, copied) = WithClipboard(); | ||
| app.SimulatePaneDrag(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId, 0, 0, 25, 1); | ||
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| app.SimulateKey(CtrlC); | ||
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| await Assert.That(copied).HasSingleItem(); | ||
| await Assert.That(copied[0]).IsEqualTo(app.PaneSelection(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId)); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// <summary>Nothing selected is not an error, but it is not silence either.</summary> | ||
| [Test] | ||
| public async Task CtrlCWithNothingSelectedSaysSo() | ||
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| var (app, copied) = WithClipboard(); | ||
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| app.SimulateKey(CtrlC); | ||
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| await Assert.That(copied).IsEmpty(); | ||
| await Assert.That(app.StatusMarkup).Contains("nothing selected"); | ||
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| /// <summary> | ||
| /// The family rule, asserted rather than assumed: an app given no writer copies nowhere and says so. | ||
| /// A test that quietly reached the real clipboard would replace whatever the developer had on it. | ||
| /// </summary> | ||
| [Test] | ||
| public async Task AnAppWithNoClipboardWriterCopiesNothingAndSaysSo() | ||
| { | ||
| var app = Rendered(); | ||
| app.SimulatePaneDrag(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId, 0, 0, 25, 1); | ||
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| app.SimulateKey(CtrlC); | ||
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| await Assert.That(app.StatusMarkup).Contains("no clipboard"); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// <summary>The ⌃P entry and the chord are one action, and the entry is how the chord is found at all.</summary> | ||
| [Test] | ||
| public async Task TheCommandSurfaceCopiesTheSameText() | ||
| { | ||
| var (app, copied) = WithClipboard(); | ||
| app.SimulatePaneDrag(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId, 0, 0, 25, 1); | ||
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| await Assert.That(app.DispatchCommand("term:copy")).IsTrue(); | ||
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| await Assert.That(copied).HasSingleItem(); | ||
| } | ||
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| public async Task DraggingAcrossAPaneSelectsTheTextUnderThePointer() | ||
| { | ||
| var app = Rendered(); | ||
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| app.SimulatePaneDrag(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId, 0, 0, 12, 0); | ||
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| await Assert.That(app.PaneSelection(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId)).IsNotEmpty(); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// <summary> | ||
| /// What is copied is what the pane <em>shows</em>, not the markup behind it. <c>Source</c> mode would | ||
| /// hand back <c>[bold #ff0000]…[/]</c>, which is not what anyone dragged over. | ||
| /// </summary> | ||
| [Test] | ||
| public async Task TheSelectedTextCarriesNoMarkup() | ||
| { | ||
| var app = Rendered(); | ||
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| app.SimulatePaneDrag(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId, 0, 0, 40, 2); | ||
| var selected = app.PaneSelection(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId); | ||
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| await Assert.That(selected).DoesNotContain("[/]"); | ||
| await Assert.That(selected).DoesNotContain("[bold"); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// <summary> | ||
| /// A pane with nothing selected reports nothing — the state every pane is in until a drag happens, and | ||
| /// the one the copy shortcut must not fire in. | ||
| /// </summary> | ||
| [Test] | ||
| public async Task AFreshPaneHasNoSelection() | ||
| { | ||
| var app = Rendered(); | ||
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| await Assert.That(app.PaneSelection(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId)).IsEmpty(); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// <summary> | ||
| /// The pin that stops this being "improved" into something that spends a cell. A selection recolours | ||
| /// cells that are already painted; if it ever gained a gutter or a marker column the pane rectangle | ||
| /// would change, and per-pane NAWS is derived from that rectangle — so dragging in a pane would | ||
| /// announce a new terminal size to every connected server and reflow the game's own output. | ||
| /// </summary> | ||
| [Test] | ||
| public async Task SelectingTextMovesNoPaneRectangle() | ||
| { | ||
| var app = Rendered(); | ||
| var before = app.PaneOutputRects(); | ||
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| app.SimulatePaneDrag(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId, 0, 0, 30, 3); | ||
| app.RenderWholeFrame(); | ||
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| await Assert.That(app.PaneOutputRects()).IsEquivalentTo(before); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// <summary> | ||
| /// A buffer that shifts under a live selection leaves it pointing at rows that have moved — the client | ||
| /// inserts and removes chrome rows mid-buffer (the freeze bar, the away bar, the <c>NEW</c> divider) | ||
| /// and repaints whole buffers when the timestamp column is toggled. The selection is dropped on those | ||
| /// paths rather than left to describe a stale grid. | ||
| /// </summary> | ||
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| public async Task RepaintingAPaneDropsASelectionThatWouldNowPointAtTheWrongRows() | ||
| { | ||
| var app = Rendered(); | ||
| app.SimulatePaneDrag(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId, 0, 0, 20, 1); | ||
| await Assert.That(app.PaneSelection(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId)).IsNotEmpty(); | ||
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| app.DispatchCommand("term:timestamps-on"); // the whole-buffer re-feed | ||
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| await Assert.That(app.PaneSelection(SharpMUTermApp.MainWindowId)).IsEmpty(); | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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Add coverage for selection in a non-focused pane and across a freeze toggle.
This file only drags and copies inside the single focused pane (MainWindowId). Two scenarios raised in src/SharpMUTerm.Tui/SharpMUTermApp.cs are not covered here:
- Selecting in a pane other than the focused one, then dispatching
term:copy/⌃C. - Selecting text, then toggling freeze (or splitting) so the pane rebuilds, and checking the selection is dropped.
Add these once the underlying behavior is confirmed and, if needed, fixed.
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In `@tests/SharpMUTerm.Tui.Tests/PaneSelectionTests.cs` around lines 1 - 187, Add
tests covering selection in a non-focused pane: drag using another pane’s
identifier, then verify both term:copy and CtrlC copy the selected text. Add a
test that selects text, toggles freeze through the relevant command, and
verifies the selection is cleared after the pane rebuilds; fix the underlying
selection handling if either scenario fails.
The terminal's own selection cannot do this job — UrlDetector's argument one layer over. Under ?1003, which this client needs for the wheel, tab and rail clicks and pane drag-and-drop, a plain drag belongs to the application; the emulator's escape hatch selects a terminal *row*, which on a vertical split crosses the divider into another pane's output, and since a pane is narrower than the row a logical line wraps and comes back with newlines injected at the wrap points. Almost all of it is the framework's, shipped in the pinned 2.5.14 and off by default: drag, double-click word, triple-click line, drag-autoscroll and a soft-wrap-aware copy. What had to be ours is the colour, the clipboard, and what happens when the buffer moves. - WorkspacePalette.SelectionBand/SelectionInk: one pair per theme, since a selection is not an identity or a focus fact. ReadingPlane pushed further in the direction of travel, leaned toward Theme.Prompt. Held to a fill floor against all fourteen planes and the ink to Contrast.Floor on the band — the highlight replaces the world's foreground too, so that ink is what all selected output is read in. - The clipboard writer is caller-supplied and null by default, the save:/logRoot:/openUrl: family. It also buys one copy path: the framework's ⌃C writes through a static helper no caller can substitute, so a test run would have replaced the developer's real clipboard. - ⌃C is claimed in the main window's key chain, not in AppShortcuts — a global shortcut would take it from the composer's editor as well. - RepaintPane drops any selection: chrome rows go in and out mid-buffer and a selection anchored to display rows would highlight text nobody dragged. - NewPaneControl is now the one place a pane control is made. Enabling selection on PaneContentFor alone left the main window unable to select anything, because that control is built in the constructor. SimulatePaneDrag is the test seam (the framework routes mouse only inside Run()), and the new `selection` view is the frame — in FrameContrastTests' list, because a colour nothing renders is a colour nobody checks. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015nuKnWthnELNkrd86q5KWN
… move Two defects from review, both real and both confirmed by a test that failed first. The copy asked the *focused pane*. Pane selection moves on ⌃arrows, ⌃O and a tab click, and a press in a pane's body moves none of them — so a drag in the pane beside the focused one left ⌃C looking elsewhere and reporting "nothing selected", which reads as a feature that does not work. It asks the window's SelectionManager now, which owns the one active selection and clears the previous owner when a new one starts. That also retires the special case for a frozen pane: one selection, one owner. The clear was at RepaintPane, which is not the only thing that re-feeds a pane — BuildFrozenContent feeds both halves and ToggleFreeze's thaw branch pours the whole buffer back. It moves to FeedRange, the one function that actually replaces a control's content. MarkupControl.SetContent does not clear a selection; only its append path does, so this cannot be left to the framework. The thaw is the case with teeth: freezing leaves the live control empty so a stale anchor yields nothing, while after a thaw the rows exist again and the new test copied "The Grand Plaza…" before the fix. PaneWindows() is added because the first cut of the non-focused-pane test passed a *pane* id to a seam that takes a *window* id and selected nothing — indistinguishable from the bug it was written to catch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015nuKnWthnELNkrd86q5KWN
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Drag across a pane's output to select it;
⌃Ccopies it. Also on⌃Pas Copy the selection, subtitled with the gesture, and in--help.Why the terminal's own selection is not the answer
UrlDetector's argument one layer over. This app enables?1049h,?1000h,?1006h,?1002hand?1003h— full any-event mouse tracking, which it needs for the wheel, tab and rail clicks, link clicks and pane drag-and-drop, and from which there is no partial retreat. Under that grab a plain drag belongs to the application, and the emulator's escape hatch (kitty's ⇧-drag, verified against/usr/lib/kitty/kitty/options/definition.py'sgrabbedmouse_map) selects a terminal row:The framework's copy walks the painted cells and breaks a line only where a row is not a soft-wrap continuation.
Most of this was already in the box
MarkupControlimplementsISelectableControl,ICopyableControlandIDragAutoScrollTargetin the pinned 2.5.14, switched off by default (EnableSelection = false). Drag, double-click word, triple-click line, drag-autoscroll through theScrollablePanelControleach pane already sits in, and one-selection-per-window arbitration are all inherited. No upstream change is needed — unlike the Sixel and Kitty-keyboard cases, every part of this stack is public.What had to be ours:
Colour.
WorkspacePalette.SelectionBand/SelectionInk— one pair per theme, and for a different reason thanReadingPlane's. There it is cost; here it is meaning: a pane's plane already says whose connection this is (hue) and where the keyboard is (luminance), and a selection is neither. The band isReadingPlanepushed further in the direction of travel — brighter on a dark theme, darker on a light one — then leaned towardTheme.Prompt. Held to a fill floor against all fourteen planes (1.5:1 asserted; tightest measured 2.70:1) and the ink toContrast.Flooron the band. That last one matters more than usual: the highlight replaces the world's foreground too, so one ink is what all selected output is read in. The framework's defaults are a fixedColor.Blackon#508CDC— the "a palette of fixed hexes cannot serve two themes" finding exactly.Clipboard. Caller-supplied and null by default — the
save:/logRoot:/openUrl:family. It also buys a single copy path: the framework's own ⌃C writes straight to the system clipboard through a static helper no caller can substitute, so a test run would have replaced whatever the developer had copied, and the one path that could not be injected would be the one under test.CopyEnabled = falseon the pane controls;ProgramsuppliesClipboardHelper.SetText, which covers OSC 52 and the platform tool, so a copy lands locally and over ssh alike.AnAppWithNoClipboardWriterCopiesNothingAndSaysSois the pin.⌃C is in the main window's key chain, not
MacroKeys.AppShortcuts. A global shortcut runs ahead of every window including the composer, whoseMultilineEditControlhas its own ⌃C and is a real editor. Being in the chain also puts it afterDispatchMacro, so a macro bound to ⌃C wins — the same relationship ⌃←/→ has with pane selection, and the reasonMacroKeys.Verdictneeds no special case.A selection is dropped when the rows under it move, in
RepaintPane— the one seam that re-feeds a pane. Chrome rows go in and out mid-buffer (freeze, away,NEW, the search bar) and the timestamp toggle re-feeds whole buffers.NewPaneControlis now the one place a pane control is made. Enabling selection onPaneContentForalone left the main window — the pane most people are looking at — unable to select anything, because that control is built in the constructor before a workspace exists. The trap announced itself on the first test run.Verification
SimulatePaneDragis the seam, forSimulatePaneClick's reason: the framework registers its driver-mouse handler insideRun(), which no test calls. The drag flag rides with the button flag, because SGR encodes motion-while-held asButton1Pressed | Button1Draggedand a seam sending the bare form would exercise a path the terminal never produces.New
selectionview, driving a real drag through the real control, added toFrameContrastTests' list (now 3 themes × 25 views) — a colour nothing renders is a colour nobody checks. Read off the frame: Dark paints the band#617a96over#36363d; Light paints it#545d90over#ffffff.dotnet build -c Release SharpMUTerm.slnxwarning-free; all five suites green — Core 937, Tui 1792, Graphics 83, Scripting 42, Web 37 (2,891).Known and not fixed
▲ FROZEN,NEW, away/restore bars, the timestamp gutter) live in the same buffer and are selectable. A terminal selection would take them too.Osc52.BuildSequencereturns null, so a very large copy lands locally and silently does not travel over ssh.allow-passthrough on.NetConsoleDriverand nothing here can verify it — treat Windows drag-select as unproven.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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