Select all does not work

[croiuki]

Since 2.0 version, select all in right click menu does not work.

Details

• Browser and browser version: Google Chrome 50.0.2661.102
• OS version: Windown 7
• xterm.js version: 2.0.0 / 2.0.1

[parisk]

Thanks for reporting @croiuki.

The reason this happens is because the right-click happens now on the textarea instead of the terminal element. Despite that I was not able to use "Select all" on Chrome on macOS even on tag 1.1.3.

A workaround you could use here until we fix this is selecting by dragging your mouse over the area you would like to, while keeping the left-click button pressed.

As I do not ever use "Select all", I would like to know if you would expect it to select all contents in the buffer or all terminal logs. IMO selecting the buffer makes more sense.

[croiuki]

Thanks for the reply.
I just want to select contents more than current screen show, but it also does not work.

[Tyriar]

We would need something such as #207 to deal with selection beyond the current page. Not sure on whether it can be implemented without causing other issues yet though.

[Tyriar]

Select all was implemented in #670, it doesn't work with the right click menu but cmd+a will work on macs and a Terminal.selectAll API is available for consumers to hook up manually.

[Tyriar]

Still an issue in v3

[Tyriar]

I'm not sure there's a way forward on fixing this in the browser, closing off as I don't see a fix but happy to be proven wrong.