Scrolling + Copy a block of text with the mouse

[Eadous]

I plan to use codex to help me with writing some code especially being able to copy and paste from the terminal to rider for example. I've noticed that if I have it write up a huge chunk of code I can't do a normal copy with mouse drag to select everything, especially because the code is then surrounded with a box for visual clarity.

I switched to this fork because the main codex doesn't have good syntax highlighting whilst this does which is great! However it does make it a bit unusable for me because of the copy and paste issue just how I copy and paste on a normal window especially a long piece of text that requires me to drag my mouse downwards.

Hope I'm making sense, and is there any way to solve this?

[Derity]

Yeah it doesn't seem like you can drag select whilst scrolling.

(For me atleast on Windows Terminal)

[just-every-code]

Yeah unfortunately it's a trade off - better UX means we have to use alternative screen mode which limits the scrollback.

You can use Ctrl+T to temporarily switch to alternative scroll mode which make the system work a bit more like codex and you can then select big blocks of text. Not all functionality works in alternative scroll but you can switch back and forth using Ctrl+T at any time.

It's still a bit messy, but works in a pinch.

[Eadous]

Ah! Okay thanks for getting back to me!

[nikdotca2]

Great to know, thank you! Is there also a way to quickly jump to the start of the most recent response? If I get a long response I end up pressing the up arrow a bunch so I can read from the start.

[zemaj]

Hmmm... You can use Home/End to Jump to the Start/End of the whole convo and Page Up/Page Down to move quickly up and down. There's no way currently to jump between assistant responses, but we could add in. Maybe like Alt/Option+Up/Down?

[nikdotca2]

Would love that @zemaj! The problem I'm trying to solve is I ask the assistant something, and I want to review it before accepting it. Today, once it responds the view starts scrolling and then I have to manually scroll back up.

An alternative or additional way to address this would be a setting that prevented automatically scrolling as the assistant responded.