Is there any way to select text with the mouse?

[andrewrondeau-optirtc]

Just started trying Lazygit the other day.

Is there any way to select text with the mouse? (So I can copy and paste?) I often copy parts of branch names into commit messages.

I tried the suggestion in #1667, which is:

$ cat ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml
gui:
  mouseEvents: false

However, doing that essentially disables all mouse support in Lazygit.

[stefanhaller]

You can copy certain bits of data using ctrl-o; for example, if a branch is selected, copy the entire branch name this way. If a file is selected, it copies the file name; if a commit is selected, it copies its hash.

To copy arbitrary stuff in lazygit, you'll have to find out what modifier your terminal uses to allow that. It's option in iTerm2, and shift in Ghostty; I use these all the time to select text and copy it. Most terminals have some way to support this, but it's not standardized. The notable exception is the builtin terminal in VS Code, which doesn't seem to support this, or at least I haven't found out how.