terminal: support shift + click to select text

[kzhui125]

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terminal: support shift + click to select text

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[jansol]

Can you clarify what you mean by this? holding shift does not seem to interact with selecting text in the terminal currently. You can click & drag to select, and you can double click to select a word -- holding shift does not affect this.

Do you mean the existing selection should be extended when clicking while holding shift down? Or something else?

[kzhui125]

for example，for text “hello world”, first click character h, then shift + click character d

VSCode support it.

[kzhui125]

For large count lines text in terminal, it’s hard to copy now in Zed.

For example, in VSCode, I can click line 1, then shift + click line 100 to copy 100 lines.

click & drag is hard to copy 100lines accurately.

[TarekAS]

I can agree, this is incredibly annoying. Even when selecting a small number of lines, if the window itself is small, it starts scrolling at incredible speeds.

[bitfield]

I use this a lot: click to set the start point, scroll to find the end, shift-click to set the end of the highlight, and Zed promptly loses my start point. Irritating!

[smitbarmase]

Thanks for reporting this. It’s been fixed in https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/25143, closing it now.