feat(terminal): Auto Copy, put a finished selection on the clipboard

App Settings > Terminal & Input > Selection & clipboard > Auto Copy
Selection (`autoCopySelection`, per-device, default OFF). With it on,
highlighting text in the terminal copies it: mouse drag, double-click
word, triple-click line, and the phone long-press selection. Ctrl+C is
untouched and still copies on demand.

Three things decide the shape of it:

* It fires at the END of a gesture, never in onSelectionChange. That
  callback runs for every cell a drag crosses, so copying there would be
  one clipboard write per mouse move. It only arms a pending flag; a
  document-level mouseup listener flushes, and the touch path calls the
  flush itself because it preventDefaults its touchend and no mouseup
  ever arrives there.
* The flush is synchronous inside the handler, because both clipboard
  paths need user activation: Firefox gates navigator.clipboard
  .writeText on it, and execCommand('copy'), the fallback the plain-HTTP
  LAN install lands on, has to run in the gesture's own task. A timer or
  a wait for onSelectionChange loses it, invisibly in Chrome.
* It deliberately does NOT do what copyTerminalSelection() does. That
  one clears the selection (so a second Ctrl+C is an interrupt) and
  focuses the terminal. Clearing would make text vanish under the cursor
  that just highlighted it, and focusing opens the on-screen keyboard
  over it on a phone. Focus is instead restored to whatever held it,
  which only matters for the execCommand fallback.

Guards are pure in decideAutoCopy() (constants.js): off, blank or
whitespace-only text, and a 1M-char cap, since a drag off the top of the
viewport autoscrolls and one gesture can sweep the whole 50k-line
scrollback. Past the cap the copy is refused rather than truncated, with
a toast pointing at Ctrl+C.

Feedback is silent on success except once per page load, so a feature
that works by doing nothing visible can still be told from a dead
toggle; failures and refusals toast, throttled to 10s.

Per-device on both counts the settings rule requires: in `displayKeys`
and absent from the .strict() SettingsUpdateSchema, because clipboard
access differs by device and by origin.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -562,6 +562,55 @@ function resolveTerminalFontFamily(custom) {
return `${families.join(', ')}, ${TERMINAL_FONT_DEFAULT_STACK}`;
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Auto Copy (copy-on-select). Pure decision, so every guard below is testable
// without a terminal, a clipboard, or a browser.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Upper bound on an AUTO-copied selection.
*
* A drag that runs off the top of the viewport autoscrolls, so one gesture can
* sweep the entire 50k-line scrollback (millions of characters), and writing
* that to the clipboard on every mouseup is a real hazard on a phone. Past the
* cap the copy is REFUSED rather than truncated (half a selection on the
* clipboard is worse than none) and the user is told to press Ctrl+C, which
* still copies the whole thing through the explicit path.
*/
const AUTO_COPY_MAX_CHARS = 1_000_000;
/**
* What an auto-copy attempt should do at the end of a selection gesture.
*
* `pending` is set by xterm's onSelectionChange and cleared on every flush;
* `lastCopied` is the text this surface auto-copied last. Either one alone is
* wrong, which is why both are here:
*
* - onSelectionChange does not reliably fire BEFORE the mouseup that ends the
* drag (xterm fires it from its own document-level mouseup handler, and
* listener order between the two is registration order, not something this
* code controls). Gating on `pending` alone would silently drop the first
* copy of a drag-selection.
* - Gating on `text !== lastCopied` alone drops a deliberate re-selection of
* the same text after the user copied something else in between, and it
* would let any unrelated mouseup on the page re-copy a stale selection.
*
* So: a genuine selection change (`pending`) always copies, and otherwise only
* text that differs from the last auto-copy does.
*
* @param {{enabled?: boolean, text?: string, lastCopied?: string, pending?: boolean}} params
* @returns {'copy'|'skip'|'too-large'}
*/
function decideAutoCopy({ enabled, text, lastCopied, pending } = {}) {
if (!enabled) return 'skip';
// Whitespace-only is what a drag across blank cells produces; putting a wall
// of spaces on the clipboard is never what the gesture meant.
if (typeof text !== 'string' || !text.trim()) return 'skip';
if (!pending && text === lastCopied) return 'skip';
if (text.length > AUTO_COPY_MAX_CHARS) return 'too-large';
return 'copy';
}
if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
window.WEBGL_FALLBACK = WEBGL_FALLBACK;
window.evaluateWebGLLongTaskTrip = evaluateWebGLLongTaskTrip;
@@ -595,6 +644,10 @@ if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
compare: compareSessionActivity,
sort: sortSessionsByActivity,
};
window.CodemanAutoCopy = {
decide: decideAutoCopy,
MAX_CHARS: AUTO_COPY_MAX_CHARS,
};
window.CodemanTerminalFont = {
DEFAULT_STACK: TERMINAL_FONT_DEFAULT_STACK,
resolve: resolveTerminalFontFamily,