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Macka323 opened this issue Mar 20, 2021 · 3 comments
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topic: code Related to content of the project itself topic: serial monitor Related to the Serial Monitor type: imperfection Perceived defect in any part of project

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Macka323 commented Mar 20, 2021

Describe the problem

When trying to select text from the serial monitor it start selecting the text from the beginning and not the section you want
also you cannot copy the output.

To reproduce

  1. Program the Arduino to output serial data like letters
  2. Open the serial monitor

Expected behavior

To select the text you only want not from the beginning to where you selected

Arduino IDE version

2.0.0-beta.4

Operating system

Windows

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@cmaglie cmaglie removed the type: bug label Sep 16, 2021
@rsora rsora added type: imperfection Perceived defect in any part of project topic: serial monitor Related to the Serial Monitor labels Sep 22, 2021
@per1234 per1234 added the topic: code Related to content of the project itself label Oct 26, 2021
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per1234 commented Feb 6, 2022

For the benefit of future readers, I'll add a note that the screencast shared here makes it a little easier to understand what this bug is;
#167 (comment)

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per1234 commented Mar 13, 2022

I am not able to reproduce the exact behavior from #167 (comment) now, but I do see something similar.

When the mouse cursor crosses the left border of the Serial Monitor output field, all the text from there up is selected. This makes it difficult to get the leftmost character on line if you are selecting in an upwards direction.

When the mouse cursor crosses the right border of the Activity Bar, all the text in the entire Serial Monitor view, including the input field text (e.g., "Message (Ctrl + Enter to send message to '<board name>')"), the line ending menu text, and the baud rate menu text, and also the line numbers in the gutter of the editor view are selected.

mouse-selection

Arduino IDE version

Original report

2.0.0-rc5

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9a6a457

Operating system

Windows

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@per1234 per1234 changed the title When trying to select text from the serial monitor it start selecting the text from the beginning and not the section you want Serial Monitor text selection starts from beginning instead of location selected by mouse cursor Jan 12, 2023
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