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Thanks for responding here! Really appreciate the interaction. Pretty sure that this is one of the biggest requests / frustrations you will hear from users. Th

Thanks for responding here! Really appreciate the interaction. Pretty sure that this is one of the biggest requests / frustrations you will hear from users. The issue is that MS has normalized the right-click menu as the go-to method of choosing exactly what one wants to do with a selection of text (, or even anywhere, for that matter), and it's useful, and uniformly available in Office and other Windows apps, and missing ONLY in cmd. For example, when pasting in Excel, Paste vs. Paste Special vs. Keep Formatting vs. Keep Formulas, etc; via the right-click menu is just great. Going from that to a "We insist on a 1982 MS-DOS experience" in the cmd window is just annoying.

int_19h 7y ago
I'm assuming that the main reason why the old terminal can't do this is because console apps can, in fact, handle right clicks. Far Manager is one example that does so for file selection, or alternatively to display its own (TUI) context menus. The terminal still has the menu commands, by the way. They're tucked away in the window system menu (the one with Minimize, Close etc, that you can open by clicking on the app icon in the title bar - it's all under Edit there).