Honor selection for copying via Ctrl-C?

[cpfeiffer]

Pressing Ctrl-C will always copy the entire paste, even if the user selected just parts of it.
IMHO it would be sensible to honor the user's selection (if any) and copy only that.

[matze]

IMHO it would be sensible to honor the user's selection (if any) and copy only that.

It does for me? On Firefox.

[cpfeiffer]

Oh, indeed. It doesn't do that in chromium.

[matze]

I will close that due to browser implementation differences I cannot control without adding more JS and intercepting Ctrl-C.

[makkarpov]

If so, there should be an option to disable this feature entirely.

I have never needed "C" as a shortcut for copying an entire paste, and I have never used it that way. Yet this feature repeatedly interferes with the standard Ctrl+C command, which is used far more often. Even if I did need the full-paste copy action, I could simply use the mouse to click the "Copy" button on the screen — that is not something which needs a super-fast shortcut.

The most destructive failure case of this "feature" would be trying to copy a single line from the paste into the terminal and instead pasting the entire thing — line breaks, commands, and all. By the time you realized what happened, everything would already be executed.

[matze]

Okay, okay, re-opening the issue.