feat(tui): paste primary selection on middle click - #44938

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Potential Duplicate PRs Found

PR #32370: feat(tui): add linux_clipboard_selection config for primary buffer support
#32370

• Directly related to PRIMARY selection handling on Linux; likely addresses the same clipboard/selection functionality

PR #6370: fix: enable primary clipboard copy for Wayland/X11 to fix Linux middle-click paste
#6370

• Addresses X11/Wayland PRIMARY selection for middle-click paste, which is the core feature of PR feat(tui): paste primary selection on middle click #44938

PR #44443: feat(tui): add selection to prompt as quoted context
#44443

• Related to selection handling in the prompt, though likely a different feature

I recommend reviewing PR #32370 and #6370 to ensure PR #44938 doesn't duplicate existing work or conflicts with prior clipboard/selection implementations.

Closing as duplicate of #32370 #6370 #44443
Hopefully one of them will merge 🙏

Thanks for tracking these down. To disentangle them — they're not really duplicates of each other, they're the different halves of the same feature:

• feat(tui): add linux_clipboard_selection config for primary buffer support #32370 (copy side): linux_clipboard_selection in tui.json (clipboard/primary/both, default both). Copy populates the configured buffer(s), and in primary mode TUI paste also reads the primary buffer. Also fixes wl-copy MIME detection.
• fix: enable primary clipboard copy for Wayland/X11 to fix Linux middle-click paste #6370: write-side only, opt-in (enablePrimaryCopy, default off), no read support. feat(tui): add linux_clipboard_selection config for primary buffer support #32370's both default subsumes it.
• feat(tui): paste primary selection on middle click #44938 (yours, paste side): middle-click reads the primary selection into the prompt. It doesn't change what the TUI writes on copy, so on its own the primary buffer is only populated by other apps or native terminal selection — it pairs with feat(tui): add linux_clipboard_selection config for primary buffer support #32370 to complete the highlight-to-copy / middle-click-to-paste round trip.
• feat(tui): add selection to prompt as quoted context #44443 is unrelated to clipboard buffers (selection → quoted context in the prompt).

So #32370 isn't duplicating #44938 or #44443 at all — the only overlap is #6370's write path, which it extends rather than repeats. Happy to merge in #44938's middle-click dispatch if/when the write side lands; the ClipboardService API in #32370 is structured to accept a read(selection) extension.

Fwiw, current dev has no primary-selection support yet, so one of these is still needed — and #6370 has been sitting since Dec 2025 and would conflict with either.