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Ability to select/copy all the text in the session #1469
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Sometimes there are situations when you need to select/copy all the text in the session.
ConEmu has such functionality (
Menu→Edit→Copy All).
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- Keybinding for action
Select All Text.
May intersect with #715.
Reacted by Michael Klose, Giovanni Bassi, Mark Knapp, Ethan Chen, Ben Combee, Matthew Lieder, Ohad Schneider, Xiang Wei (Oculus), Shy Shalom, fincs and 41 more
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Issues pertaining to the terminal control (input, selection, keybindings, mouse interaction, etc.)We encourage anyone to jump in on these.It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design.The new Windows Terminal.Fix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release.This is a fix that might be easier for someone to do as a first contribution
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carlos-zamora commentedon May 12, 2020
I should add this to the #4993 scenario.
swinder0161 commentedon Sep 26, 2020
Carlos Zamora (@carlos-zamora) what is the plan for this feature? Looks like an important feature.
Select by mouse/trackpad works. Adding by keyboard short cut would be easy to use.
theswordsmahin commentedon Nov 3, 2020
For what its worth and to whomever finds this useful, if you zoom out really far with ctrl + scroll wheel highlighting the complete buffer is much less painful even for relatively long histories. Not ideal of course, workable.
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Araxeus commentedon Feb 26, 2022
FYI
ctrl+aworks if the tab is powershell but not if its cmdMartinDevillers commentedon Apr 8, 2022
I probably have a silly workflow, but I just wanted to echo that for me "Select All" (Ctrl+A) and "Copy" (Ctrl+C) console output would be a pretty sweet feature to have.
Menelion commentedon May 5, 2022
Dear devs, could you please implement this? As a blind developer I'm not able to use the mouse at all and, as it seems, there is no way of selecting text in Windows Terminal using the keyboard only. Otherwise, a great app, thank you.
Add ability to select all text in the buffer (#13045)
Araxeus commentedon May 24, 2022
Sorry but this is super unhelpful, it selects all the text in the prompt including the beginning
How about the ability to just select the current writable buffer??
DHowett commentedon May 24, 2022
This feature request was for the ability to select all the text in the buffer. If you're looking for something else, please file a new feature request.
In addition: that part of the buffer is writable: