Copying Sixel/imgcat Images to Clipboard

[jamespinkerton]

Hi. This may already exist. But I was curious if it's possible to copy sixel images or imgcat images to the clipboard.

When I create a graph in sixel, I can't right click on it to select copy with the mouse. I'm not sure if there's another way to copy.

Thanks so much, James

[wez]

this isn't currently supported

[jamespinkerton]

Thanks for the quick response! Would a feature request for this be welcome?

[wez]

This is the feature request!

This has some tricky aspects:

• The selection model is currently entirely text cell based
• images are per-cell attachments
• Text cells can be interspersed with image cells
• Multiple images may be on-screen and thus be part of a selection
• how do you reconcile what should be copied when the selection is a mixture of images and text?
• wezterm doesn't currently know how to publish anything other than text to the various system clipboards

I don't have plans to work on this any time soon, but if someone were motivated and had a good plan for tackling this, I'd help them to navigate their way through making a PR.