Conemu: Unable to select text with mouse

[dakotahawkins]

Versions

ConEmu build: 180427 x64
OS version: Windows 10 x64
Used shell version: git-bash, cmd, powershell

Problem description

Left click does nothing

Steps to reproduce

1. Try to left click and drag to select/copy some text
2. Fail

Actual results

Nothing happens

Expected results

Can select and copy text

Additional files

Settings xml

[Maximus5]

Nope. Selection is working on your config.

[dakotahawkins]

@Maximus5 That's good, then. Thanks for testing it!

It still doesn't mark at all for me (though I can right click the tab and use edit > mark text) to do it, so maybe something is weird with my environment.

I notice now it's also broken if I just run cmd.exe outside of ConEmu... I see that QuickEdit Mode is disabled there for some reason:

Fixing that setting in cmd.exe / sh.exe doesn't affect ConEmu. I'll try restarting my machine and report back in a few minutes.

[dakotahawkins]

Still not working. I'm not sure what to try.

Edit: I will see if I can build/debug.

[Maximus5]

I don't know what are you doing. The selection just works.

And if course properties of RealConsole have no effect on selection in ConEmu.

[dakotahawkins]

I'm doing what you are doing in your animation, except there's no selection.

[Maximus5]

Show your animation

[dakotahawkins]

Used ScreenToGif and turned on "detect mouse clicks" option:

[maddin77]

I have the same problem. Downgrading to 18.4.22.0 via chocolatey fixed this for me.

[agross]

I also have the same problem. Mouse (left) does neither select nor paste with right-click.

[Maximus5]

1. Run ConEmu64.exe -basic -log -run cmd. Does section works?
2. Run ConEmu64.exe -log -run cmd /D. She question.
   Upload LogFiles on problems.

@dakotahawkins there is blinking on your screenshot, may this depict up/down/up/down mouse events?

[agross]

Run ConEmu64.exe -basic -log -run cmd. Does section works?

That works.

Run ConEmu64.exe -log -run cmd /D. She question.

ConEmu-con-22196.log
ConEmu-gui-9872.log
ConEmu-srv-22196.log

[dakotahawkins]

@Maximus5 I don't think so, I think it's probably an artifact of the capture program I used. Or do you mean the insert cursor blinking? It's just configured to blink, I think.

Run ConEmu64.exe -basic -log -run cmd. Does section works?

Also works for me

Run ConEmu64.exe -log -run cmd /D

Doesn't work.

Logs from second command:

ConEmu-con-13596.log
ConEmu-gui-8724.log
ConEmu-srv-13596.log

[dakotahawkins]

I can reproduce the issue in a debug build with my settings (but it doesn't reproduce with the default settings!).

Is there anything you'd like me to look at?

[suksit]

I also got this problem. I tried resetting the options and re-configured ConEmu step-by-step and I believe the culprit is the Scrollbar settings -- if you set Scrollbar to "Show" then you'll get this behavior.

[dakotahawkins]

Confirmed! -- Mine was set to "Show" and setting it to "Auto" instead lets me select with my mouse.

Makes sense as some of the changes between the previous version and this one related to auto-showing the scrollbar.

[dakotahawkins]

It's because of this.

bool CConEmuChild::CheckMouseOverScroll() always returns true if the scrollbar is always visible -- regardless of whether the mouse is actually over it.

Trying a few things now to see if I can adjust the logic and preserve the fix for the bug that was intended to fix.

[dakotahawkins]

As I mentioned in the diff for #1536, there are usages of CConEmuChild::CheckMouseOverScroll() that _might_ expect different results for different reasons, so I'm not positive that doesn't break anything else.

Regardless, I think it should never return true without checking, and in debug that change fixed this issue and hovering over the scroll area displayed the scrollbar as expected when scrollbar visibility was set to "Auto".

[alexdevero]

The same issue:
ConEmu build: 180427 x64
OS version: Windows 10 x64
Used shell version: cmd

As @dakotahawkins and @suksit mentioned, switching Scrollbar form "Show" to "Auto" allows text selection with mouse.

[DJviolin]

Same issue here from the last alpha update:

OS verison: Windows 10 10.0.16299.402
Conemu version: 180427 preview

Setting the scrollbar to auto also solving this for me, temporarily.

[Maximus5]

It was fixed in 180429, kudos to @dakotahawkins

[refack]

Confirmed was broken and now fixed here as well. Thanks all.
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17655.1000]

[dakotahawkins]

It's working great for me on a Win10 machine and a Win7 machine.

I'll go ahead and close this since the fix is available in the new install.