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Double-click to select text is broken

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by reproducing the double-click in a terminal that is not capturing mouse input, then trace the mouse handling and text-selection path involved in the drag-and-drop behavior. Done means double-click selection matches the intended selection behavior and Cmd+C copies the selected text.

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Description

bug
  • For a terminal which is not capturing mouse input
  • When the user clicks and drags, it triggers our special drag-and-drop behavior which works great
  • But when the user double-clicks, it triggers some underlying text-selection (not ours). It doesn't look like the text selection above, and Cmd+C doesn't do a copy of the selected text
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
5
Forks
1
Avg merge
17h 45m
Merged PRs (30d)
235

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