Thanks for responding here! Really appreciate the interaction.
Pretty sure that this is one of the biggest requests / frustrations you will hear from users. The issue is that MS has normalized the right-click menu as the go-to method of choosing exactly what one wants to do with a selection of text (, or even anywhere, for that matter), and it's useful, and uniformly available in Office and other Windows apps, and missing ONLY in cmd.
For example, when pasting in Excel, Paste vs. Paste Special vs. Keep Formatting vs. Keep Formulas, etc; via the right-click menu is just great. Going from that to a "We insist on a 1982 MS-DOS experience" in the cmd window is just annoying.
I'm assuming that the main reason why the old terminal can't do this is because console apps can, in fact, handle right clicks. Far Manager is one example that does so for file selection, or alternatively to display its own (TUI) context menus.
The terminal still has the menu commands, by the way. They're tucked away in the window system menu (the one with Minimize, Close etc, that you can open by clicking on the app icon in the title bar - it's all under Edit there).
Hey me too! The number of times I've closed a terminal because "Close" and "Edit" are right next to each other. :(
I do prefer X because of the PRIMARY selection style automatic copy/pasting, but this would go a long way to making my Windows experience more enjoyable. The Windows development experience is hugely improved and my rediscoveries of it in the last few months have been generally very enjoyable.
Oh, you want an actual right-click menu? I honestly don't think I've ever heard that _specific_ request before.
You have never heard that people might want to use functionality that has worked on all editable text in the entire rest of the operating system since Windows 95?
No, people have not specifically made that request to our team in the last 4 years we've owned the console. We get feature requests all the time, but I certainly haven't heard this version before.
This fundamentally sums up why I prefer macOS over windows. Things work consistently throughout not only the desktop experience, but the phone and watch experience too.
Fortunately, the Windows Terminal doesn't have any existing back-compat we have to support, so that's definitely a setting we can add to it :)