Space/newline characters are copied when selected

[poliorcetics]

Summary

When displayed, the space/tabs/newline/nbsp characters interfere with URL recognition, OS copy/paste:

URL recognition take into account the newline character:

OS copy then paste (not with space + y but with Command + C on macOS) also gets them:

First copying

Then pasting

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. hx
2. :set-option whitespace.render all
3. :set-option mouse false
4. Write // See https://gitlab.company.com/company/project/-/issues/42, add newline, exit insert mode
5. Click on URL, it will take the newline character
6. Copy / See http with the OS select and copy (with mouse and Command + C)
7. Paste somewhere else

I expected this to happen:

The virtual characters are not copied

Instead, this happened:

The virtual characters are copied

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

please provide a copy of `~/.cache/helix/helix.log` here if possible, you may need to redact some of the lines

Platform

macOS

Terminal Emulator

kitty 0.25.2

Helix Version

helix 22.05 (e58d28a)

[the-mikedavis]

I don't think this is possible to fix and the same thing happens in vim and kakoune. The terminal doesn't have a concept of virtual text afaik so there's no way for us to render whitespace text so that it isn't part of the URL.

[kirawi]

You can use space y to copy instead.

[kovidgoyal]

Sure you can fix it using OSC 8 to mark hyperlinks.

[kirawi]

#1472