Only the visible data can be copied from the serial Monitor

[boundmaidlea]

Describe the problem

When selecting text on the serial monitor (with the connected device paused) upon scroll the range of the selection shifts in unpredictable patterns (at least i didn't see a reproducable pattern) which prevents selecting more then one page of the output. As of #812/#105 using ctrl+a is also not an option to select text in that tab.

As i do not have the problem of new text triggering a redraw which removes the selection, i do not consider this a duplicate of #812/#105, but feel free to correct me.

To reproduce

• print multiple pages text on the serial monitor once e.g. in the setup() function.
• when all text is received select a bit of it
• scroll the output up and down a bit

Expected behavior

The selection should stay between the first and last selected characters, and not randomly jump around.

Arduino IDE version

Original report

2.0.0-rc7-nightly-20220615

Last verified with

9a6a457

Operating system

Windows

Operating system version

10.0.19044.1706 Pro

Additional context

My Nightly Build is 4 days old, but the 3 commits since then do not have any relations to this issue.

Additional reports

• Copy-pasting from the serial monitor only copies what's on the screen. #1710
• Copy from Serial monitor on mac #1817
• Total trash maintainers: Enable copy and paste from the serial monitor #2262
• The output of the Port Monitor is not copied #2431
• Only the visible data can be copied from the serial Monitor #2098 (comment)
• I can't copy full text from Seril Monitor window #2520
• The decoder does not recognize the stack trace after copy/pasting to the terminal dankeboy36/esp-exception-decoder#31 (comment)
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/1
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/19
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/30
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/34
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/35
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/37
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/39
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/49
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/50
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/60
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/64
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/68
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copying-from-serial-monitor/1071503/1
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copying-from-serial-monitor/1071503/6
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copying-from-serial-monitor/1071503/8
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/coping-multiple-lines-on-monitor-screen/1019346
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-serial-monitor-not-possible-options/1058964
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/why-does-click-into-serial-monitor-ctrl-a-mark-the-source-code/1128016
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/text-selection-broken-in-ide-serial-monitor-2-1-1/1160156
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/how-can-i-copy-the-whole-content-of-the-serial-monitor/1168904/2
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/how-to-copy-entire-serial-monitor-output/1175060
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/your-reason-for-not-switching-to-the-2-x-ide/1176322/47
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-from-serial-monitor/1179986
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/exception-decoder/1055759/9

Issue checklist

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• I verified the problem still occurs when using the latest nightly build
• My report contains all necessary details

[boundmaidlea]

I also just found #247 which is similar but seems unrelated

[KurtE]

I have been noticing the same thing as well, as when it scrolls, it often only appears to only copy the stuff that is visible on the screen at the time... Have not completely verified that exactly, but that is how it feels.

I was trying to decide if I should append that to my previous issue #812 but saw this one which was more specific