RoyalTerminal: configurable copy on select behavior

Feature Requests Royal TS (for Windows)
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Hi,

Currently RoyalTerminal seems to not copy the selected text directly to the clipboard. You need to manually press CTRL+Ins to really copy the selection.

Most Linux users shouldn’t be too bothered by this as it is a default behavior of many terminal emulators, but Windows users used to PuTTY copying directly after select to clipboard may have some … surprises :face_savoring_food:

Ghostty offer an option to control this feature (copy-on-select) that can be set to

  • true to only copy to the selection clipboard (internal)

  • clipboard to copy the selection automaticaly to the system clipboard/selection clipboard, or false to do nothing.

  • false to do nothing

Additionnaly, there is another option (right-click-action) that can be useful with copy-on-select for some users as it can change how it react to the right-click

  • copy (pretty obvious :face_savoring_food:)
  • copy-or-paste (useful 2-in-1 with copy-on-paste = false)
  • paste (standard for PuTTY users :face_savoring_food:)
  • nothing (this one is for those who don’t really use mouses :rofl:)

Default Rebex plugin does not offer much options (other than the “Mouse Paste”) but the PuTTY plugin offer such options already:

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Would be a nice addition :wink:

Best Regards,
Nicolas.

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The next release will have this feature on board and behaves similarly to what Windows Terminal is doing when the option is enabled.