[feat] support to select the assistant's output text with the mouse #292

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1. douglarek

   changed the title [-][bug] Unable to select the assistant's output text with the mouse[/-] [+][feat] support to select the assistant's output text with the mouse[/+] on Jun 21, 2025
2. monotykamary commented on Jun 21, 2025

   

   monotykamary

   on Jun 21, 2025

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   FWIW, block mode tmux copying still works. Otherwise, the effort for this shouldn't be too big.

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   1. Add mouse drag selection handling in packages/tui/internal/tui/tui.go
   2. Track selection state (start/end positions) in the TUI model
   3. Modify message rendering to highlight selected text regions
   4. Add clipboard integration for copy functionality

   Low-Medium effort - the foundational work is already complete:

   • ✅ Mouse support already implemented
   • ✅ Text rendering system in place using glamour
   • ✅ Event handling architecture established with Bubbletea

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   Approximately 150-300 lines of Go code:

   • Mouse selection logic: ~100 lines in tui.go
   • Selection state management: ~50 lines
   • Visual highlighting: ~50-100 lines (modify existing render functions)
   • Clipboard integration: ~50 lines
3. cravenceiling commented on Jun 22, 2025

   

   cravenceiling

   on Jun 22, 2025

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   I think this is a duplicate of #212. You can select text by holding shift.
4. monotykamary commented on Jun 22, 2025

   

   monotykamary

   on Jun 22, 2025

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   you definitely can select text that way, but you also copy everything else in the UI:

   

   in tmux, you can use block copy and have a special pipe to parse it; this would probably be the goal if possible with bubbletea:

   

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   edit: actually this lazy pipe works with tmux

   bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Y send-keys -X copy-pipe "tmux show-buffer | claude -p 'Clean up this text by removing trailing whitespace, connecting lines appropriately, and making it readable as a single coherent block of text. Return only the cleaned text with no additional commentary: ' | pbcopy"
   

   if we're super lazy, we could just hijack the copy and clean up the text through a cheap LLM
5. thdxr

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   adamdotdevin

   on Jun 22, 2025
6. orlandokj commented on Jun 24, 2025

   

   orlandokj

   on Jun 24, 2025

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   I think it would be nice to have a copy option in the message, can be a command like /copy or maybe we can navigate the selected message through some keybind and then hit another keybind to copy it to clipboard.
7. adamdotdevin commented on Jul 16, 2025

   

   adamdotdevin

   on Jul 16, 2025

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   taking the convo to #212
8. adamdotdevin

   closed this as a duplicateof Cannot Select Text #212 on Jul 16, 2025
9. b3nw

   added a commit that references this issue on Jan 16, 2026

   Merge branch 'shuvcode-dev' into integration

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   This issue will close once commit 33aee23 is merged into the 'dev' branch.

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10. andreipromarketing-dev

    added a commit that references this issue on Apr 7, 2026

    chore(config): governance and config foundation (anomalyco#292)

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11. bussard76

    added a commit that references this issue on May 12, 2026

    fix: precreate opencode config before engine start (anomalyco#292)

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