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by lbenes 2895 days ago
Can't speak for OP, but I tried migrating some of our workflow to Windows. First annoyance I hit was this one:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30418886/how-and-why-doe...

This may be by design, but there has to be a better way. Unix/Linux consoles have allowed mouse copy/paste for as long as I can remember and I've never experienced this bug over there.

Really annoying when you go out to lunch with a job running, only to come back to find that it's right where you left it. So many solutions to this problem like making the copy/paste mode harder to trigger accidently. Visual feedback that it's in that mode, or allowing the buffer to expand indefinitely when copy mode is triggered.

Pausing the job is the last thing I'd want, especially since this seems to easy to trigger accidentally.