Run this:
$ printf 'select\tme\n'
and double-click select
. Observe that the cell after the word is also highlighted, and pressing ctrl-shift-C will copy the tab character.
Alacritty 0.3.3, Ubuntu 18.04, X11
I've verified this on the latest master branch.
Adding \t
to semantic_escape_chars
in alacritty.yml fixes this for me.
Sounds like that might be a reasonable change. I don't see why it wouldn't be part of it already, since a normal whitespace is already in there. So likely just an oversight.