What's Wrong?
First off there is no way to copy anything said in chat currently unless you want to take a screen shot or try typing it out. However if the text contains characters from a different language that may be nearly impossible.
Secondly when chatting there is support for highlighting the message you are currently typing (if you use shift+arrow keys or ctrl+a) and this works fine but it DOESN'T work with the mouse. There are even other places that partially work with highlighting such as when naming a game room(both the "create new" screen and renaming an existing room) you can use this shift+arrow keys to "highlight" text to copy and paste (however the actual "highlight" doesn't show on the text so you have to kind of guess how much you have highlighted)
What I would like to see is
1) Have all the functionality of highlighting / selecting text in a message I'm typing available with the mouse.
2) Being able to highlight/select other people's text in chat so I can copy and paste easily (hopefully with my mouse)
3) Have all the functionality from making a chat message available when naming a room. (being able to see what I'm highlighting, and using my mouse)
4) Being able to highlight a game room name to copy it
(so being able to copy from here even if I'm not host)
Why I think other people want it.
Because it was mentioned in an accepted feature suggestion although not entirely implemented.
t/1564
And other people are talking about it but not creating a feature request for it!
p/2017576
Why I think this is possible.
Because we already have these features in the chat box for typing a message with keyboard support I think it should be nearly trivial to extend this to other text boxes like room names. And then it should be possible if not trivial to select things with the mouse.
Here is an example of what you can do keyboard only when typing a message
First off there is no way to copy anything said in chat currently unless you want to take a screen shot or try typing it out. However if the text contains characters from a different language that may be nearly impossible.
Secondly when chatting there is support for highlighting the message you are currently typing (if you use shift+arrow keys or ctrl+a) and this works fine but it DOESN'T work with the mouse. There are even other places that partially work with highlighting such as when naming a game room(both the "create new" screen and renaming an existing room) you can use this shift+arrow keys to "highlight" text to copy and paste (however the actual "highlight" doesn't show on the text so you have to kind of guess how much you have highlighted)
What I would like to see is
1) Have all the functionality of highlighting / selecting text in a message I'm typing available with the mouse.
2) Being able to highlight/select other people's text in chat so I can copy and paste easily (hopefully with my mouse)
3) Have all the functionality from making a chat message available when naming a room. (being able to see what I'm highlighting, and using my mouse)
4) Being able to highlight a game room name to copy it
(so being able to copy from here even if I'm not host)
Why I think other people want it.
Because it was mentioned in an accepted feature suggestion although not entirely implemented.
t/1564
And other people are talking about it but not creating a feature request for it!
p/2017576
Why I think this is possible.
Because we already have these features in the chat box for typing a message with keyboard support I think it should be nearly trivial to extend this to other text boxes like room names. And then it should be possible if not trivial to select things with the mouse.
Here is an example of what you can do keyboard only when typing a message
. But at least we can have this suggestion sitting around then.
