If emacs wasn’t really slow with long lines in buffers and high volume output, it could be better
What is this? I've been using iterm2 for years and don't know about this (and can't seem to find anything mentioning it).
“Tables” is imprecise, but is one use-case: it’s more about identifying soft boundaries like the lines between tmux or vim splits and limiting the selection to one side of the split. If you have pipe-delimited tables, it lets you select a single column of values.
Interpretation of intent and “helping” the user are neither needed nor desired, and at best leave everything alone and at worst misinterpret and get in the way.
I have never copied anything out of a terminal and gotten anything other than what I copied when I pasted into sublime text, and I’ve never used iterm2.
Are you talking about copying from a terminal and pasting into OneNote or some other “more than plain text” application or something?
This is the single feature I miss the most in any other terminal emulator.
The iTerm2 feature being discussed means that selecting works the same way it does for graphical programs like Gedit or Pycharm or Word — if you select 10 lines you select 10 lines and your window size, font size and visual wrap setting don’t factor into it, and when you paste, you paste what you copied as it was. I would say this is the intuitive and reasonable behavior, but it’s one that is not simple to implement. A visual word wrap should be a purely visual thing and s back to back Cut and Paste should result in nothing changing.
Does that include all trailing whitespace in the rectangle you selected? Should your selection automatically minimize to unselect said trailing whitespace (even before copying, I mean)? Should a selection preserve tab characters or replace them with spaces? What if the selection does not start at a tab boundary, should it ignore or include the half-selected tab instance?
I don't think there is a singular answer to what "copy selection verbatim" means.
A couple years ago, I tried this in kitty and a couple other Linux terminals and none of them implemented this.
IMO this setting belongs with the application, and especially with tmux and nvim supporting this natively, you don't really need the terminal itself to implement some potentially fallible heuristic. For example with iTerm if you accidentally drag outside the pane boundary, the selection immediately expands to include both the panes, which is not ideal.
Sometime in the last year, iterm2 started adding ~00~ crap around stuff I paste. then some yellow 'alert' box at the top indicating I'm doing something wrong and do I want to keep doing it. makes 0 sense to me, and... annoying because it didn't do it for the first... 6-7+ years I used it. My behaviour didn't change, but iterm2 starts breaking.
No doubt there's some 100% logical explanation as to what changed such that my standard copy/paste is 'wrong' now, but... would have preferred they'd have kept the original behaviour.
There’s a toggle in the terminal settings
Wezterm terminal supports multiplexing from the box: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.HTML
Also, there is Hyper terminal, and standalone protocol to implement multiplexing https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/q5mj11/htm_a_c...
If you know other options, please share.
I work in windows, but at home I use macos, so I stick to wezterm. I use it with single config for both platforms (config is written in Lua)