@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

• Only the visible data can be copied from the serial Monitor #1081 (comment)
• 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
• Serial Monitor copying only visible portion of selected text #2660
• Serial Monitor copying only visible portion of selected text #2660 (comment)
• Copy all text from the serial terminal. #2674
• The decoder does not recognize the stack trace after copy/pasting to the terminal dankeboy36/esp-exception-decoder#31 (comment)
• unble to decode stack. dankeboy36/esp-exception-decoder#42
• Suggestion: the decoder should "listen" to the monitor and auto-capture the next crash dankeboy36/esp-exception-decoder#51
• https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1mdvgts/comment/n65njc4/
• 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/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/72
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/88
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/copy-paste-data-from-the-serial-monitor/1041585/93
• 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
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/getting-weird-error-r4-wifi/1370974
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/tinytcl-found-on-github-marked-abandoned/1395464/34
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/need-logging-or-save-to-file-for-the-serial-monitor/1383747
• https://forum.arduino.cc/t/ide2-x-buffersize-and-crtl-a-for-output-window/1409003

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