Avoid copying a single empty line into the Clipboard

[pasha-omni]

Feature: When user presses Ctrl+C on a single unselected empty line -- ignore it, don't do anything.

In my 20+ years of development, I don't recall a single time where I would have actually wanted to copy an empty line into the clipboard. Whereas the problem where I would try to paste something into the editor, only to accidentally press Ctrl+C instead of Ctrl+V, and having my text in the clipboard gone with no possibility to recover -- that happens daily, multiple times a day.

Please? It is likely not that hard to implement, but would make life easier for many developers.

[albertosantini]

TIL I don't need to select the line to copy it. Thanks :)

To mitigate the issue, you may use an history clipboard (builtin in Windows).

[aiday-mar]

Hi thanks for filing the issue. So just to clarify you would want to keep the behavior that pressing ctrl+c on an empty selection on a non-empty line would copy the non-empty line, but when it is on an empty line, it would not do anything?

[pasha-omni]

Yes, exactly!

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