That was a description of how Windows handles this. Basically, the current selection and those capabilities are part of the console host. Your application runni

That was a description of how Windows handles this. Basically, the current selection and those capabilities are part of the console host. Your application running in a console window has (to my knowledge) no idea of those features; it cannot tell whether there is a selection or not or what to do with it because they happen transparently a layer above your application (between your application and the window manager, essentially). So the question you're asking is a bit moot, in a way, considering that the answer is yes, because that's exactly the way it is. It cannot be any other way, as far as I can see.