copy & paste in PuTTY: long lines are splitted when pasted

[fansari]

When I use zellij and the output is longer than the terminal and then do a copy & paste with the mouse the lines become splitted.

I use zellij 0.18.1. My config.yaml looks like this;

no_pane_frames: true
disable_mouse_mode: true

The scenario is like this: I use PuTTY on a Windows 10 system and SSH to a Linux VM and from there I run zellij.

When I open a PuTTY session without running zellij and do the same thing I get one single line when pasting.

[a-kenji]

@fansari,
Is that still an issue?

[fansari]

I have today tested this with 0.20.1. The issue is still there.

[a-kenji]

Thank you for checking!

[robdew]

it's not just PuTTY. Same happens in iTerm2 on macOS

[imsnif]

I think this is an issue in all terminals. Essentially what happens is that when copying in Zellij, we treat line-wraps as line-breaks. Personally I thought this was desirable, but apparently I was wrong. :)

Will try to give this a look and fix it in the near future.

[jenxie]

Is there an update to this? Noticed this as a new user of Zellij 0.25.0.

[imsnif]

I think maybe @tlinford was working on this?

[tlinford]

i missed this issue actually, as far as i can tell this is fixed since 0.25.0 (was addressed in #1069)

[tlinford]

are you running with mouse_mode off @jenxie?

[jenxie]

@tlinford I'm using mouse_mode: true, I just noticed this happens to me in vim but not in bash :/

using mouse_mode: false it selects the pane frame too which I don't really need.

[tlinford]

aha, next release we have this #1191 which is a pretty big step forward for proper mouse integration with vim - although I suspect we will also need to sort out #1199 to have a great out of the box experience.

[jenxie]

Gotcha, tested 0.26.0, when selecting in vim it goes into Visual Mode, so one needs to use 'y' to yank and 'p' to paste as an example. Works though :)

[tlinford]

cool, thanks for testing :)

[fansari]

For me it does not work with 0.26.0. I have put a long line into a file and do a cat on this file in a Gnome terminal.
Next I copied this line with the mouse and inserted it with paste into an editor (I have tried vi and nano).

In both cases the result are two lines. To doublecheck this I have also opened a Gnome terminal without running zellij. There the result is one line.

Also tested on Windows 10 with PuTTY: same result

[tlinford]

sorry @fansari , the comments from yesterday are a different case with mouse_mode enabled, you have it turned off right?

[fansari]

I have this setting for the mouse: disable_mouse_mode: true