Cannot Select Text #212
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In Claude Code I very often select text to copy it. I somehow do not manage to get text selection to work. This is using Ghostty on macOS.
opencode v0.1.104
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adamdotdevin commentedon Jun 19, 2025
i'm also going to add keybinds for navigating through messages and copying them
MichaelVessia commentedon Jun 27, 2025
I ran into similar problems, but I have realized i can work around this in a bit of a hacky way by using the share feature and copying from the browser output. Holding the shift key down and copying in that manner led to copying all types of white space and artifacts from the output, so that wasn't very helpful for me, unfortunately.
adamdotdevin commentedon Jul 4, 2025
i added some stuff around this but i'm not totally sold on it.
you can use
ctrl+up/downto navigate through messages in the session and then<leader>yto copy messages. curious what you all think.rochecompaan commentedon Jul 5, 2025
This text-selection mode is not constrained to a particular terminal pane. It selects the border, which means you have to clean it up before pasting multi-line selects. See the screenshot below.
Regboy744 commentedon Jul 13, 2025
Thanks adamdotdevin, the ctrl+up/down plus ctrl-x y helps, but it copies the entire text. are you thinking about something where we can just select the text ? thanks so much
adamdotdevin commentedon Jul 16, 2025
alright, wanted to update everyone on the state of this text copying situation.
first, we obviously want to support selecting text with your mouse and copying it. unfortunately, it's a decent chunk of work to get that right (we have to implement it from scratch, for reasons i won't get into here). mostly it just keeps getting deferred because it's going to take a few days of head down effort, likely, and that means we have to put lots of stuff on hold.
but we'll get there, hopefully very soon.
in the meantime, we have a couple of solutions to copying text (aside from the /share hack):
https://opencode.ai/docs/troubleshooting/#how-to-select-and-copy-text-in-the-tui
thdxr commentedon Jul 20, 2025
copy is implemented in v0.3.45
Regboy744 commentedon Jul 20, 2025
Perfect, working fine . Thanks 😊
p2arthur commentedon Mar 8, 2026
Most annoying thing. Can't copy commands...
bodangren commentedon Mar 29, 2026
Still can't copy on Ubuntu 24.04. "chopped" toast artists, but nothing goes in the paste buffer.
Steps to reproduce: on Ubuntu 24.04, select text. Text does not stay selected. Today sisters that text has been copied. Neither ctrl-v, right click, not middle click will paste that text, and instead paste previous copies.
Expected behavior: select text. Text starts selected. Using right click or ctrl-c, copy text to paste elsewhere.
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