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To be clear, you still can't click, drag, and highlight text for basic operations like quickly and easily copying some text in any Bubbletea/Lipgloss interfaces, right?

Unless that has changed, that dynamic places this behind most other CLI-based IRC clients, including some that are decades old.

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Wait, how can you not copy paste from a terminal application?

Or is this about to have break-line aware copy in panes (such as in tmux)?

You can't even select text via mouse cursor in Bubbletea/Lipgloss applications, let alone copy.

Pasting works fine.

of course you can, thats a thing you enable or disable

Is there a reference to this functionality in docs anywhere?

Thats neat actually, will take a look into how viable it can be. Bubbletea (and lipgloss) are like CSS for the terminal, you do the styling, calculate margins, manage responsive things wich is quite cool already. I believe what you mean is totally doable, just that I'm not much of a mouse user myself - it slows me down. Thanks for the feedback.

For what it's worth, I rarely do use the mouse in my terminal, but on those few occasions when I do want to, Bubbletea/Lipgloss applications have had a history of being pretty infuriating for me as a user.

P.S. Keep up the great work! The world needs more IRC.

How is this separate from what a terminal normally provides?

I can select text with my mouse cursor in all terminal applications that are not Bubbletea/Lipgloss, and cannot do so in Bubbletea/Lipgloss applications.

thats not true here, you can indeed do it on zuse.

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