Mouse mode enabled prevents copying selection to clipboard on remote system

[groovy9]

Summary

I'm using Windows terminal, ssh to remote linux server, running Helix there. Mouse mode works fine, doesn't select the line numbers, and middle-button pasting works into Helix, all of which is great. But it prevents me from copying any text to the clipboard. With mouse mode off, I can select text, control-c to copy to windows clipboard and then paste into anything.

With mouse mode on, I have no apparent way to copy text from Helix to anything else.

Same thing happens with the Alacritty terminal, which uses control-shift-c to copy. Works with mouse mode off, doesn't with it on.

Reproduction Steps

• add ':set mouse true' to [editor] section of config.toml
• start Helix
• Open a text file
• select text with mouse
• control-c
• control-v into other tool

Helix log

No response

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

Windows terminal

Helix Version

22.05-dev (5247d3a)

[kirawi]

I think this might be a duplicate of #1901

[kirawi]

Closing in favor of #2615

[AviKav]

@groovy9 You can use Shift to do the selection in Windows Terminal itself and prevent mouse events being intercepted/sent to the underlying application. You can also do Shift + Alt to do rectangular selections to avoid copying the line numbers.