Shortcuts and special argument issues

[Zspaghetti]

I'm glad to see the app evolving with new features; the state of shortcuts is a bit confusing though.

Since a somewhat recent update Ctrl+V paste is a no-op (only Ctrl+Shift+V works), and Ctrl+A opens the file picker instead of jumping to start-of-line. (Used to select the WIP prompt allowing us to copy it), i also believe we could use mouse click-drag to select text in the past.

Likely a shared root cause in how input events are being captured by the TUI instead of passed through to the terminal.
Would be great to either restore native passthrough for selection/paste, or add proper in-app bindings for select-all/copy.

Also the argument:
'-i-promise-i-have-backups-and-will-not-file-issues' doesn't prevent the agent from asking for permissions to remove files for instance or run scripts. (i've been using late for a while and the issue has always been there, yes i'm aware i'm currently filling an issue)

Thanks for the great tool!

[mlhher]

Thank you for the nice words. I agree the shortcut system has always been rather neglected. Primarily because from the beginning there was no system while getting more and more features.

Since a somewhat recent update Ctrl+V paste is a no-op (only Ctrl+Shift+V works),

This should depend on your system. CTRL+V on Linux usually never works for pasting it is usually always CTRL+Shift+V (in Ptyxis, Ghostty at the very least). What does make me question it is that you are saying that this is changed in a recent update. Might have missed something will look into it.

and Ctrl+A opens the file picker instead of jumping to start-of-line. (Used to select the WIP prompt allowing us to copy it),

This is simply due to me finding CTRL+A the most natural for the file picker (vs e.g. CTRL+F). I agree that we should have not overwritten CTRL+A.

i also believe we could use mouse click-drag to select text in the past.

This is correct. This is disabled because you can double click a message now and it will auto-copy. This is to not have the weird formatting issues when people take the messages out of Late. If this causes further issues please explain.

'-i-promise-i-have-backups-and-will-not-file-issues' doesn't prevent the agent from asking for permissions to remove files for instance or run scripts.

This is indeed a bug it shouldn't even ask for rm, and especially not for running scripts. For rm this is due to forcing the agent to ask for permission I assume. Both will be fixed so no worries about the message. I will also try to make it more clear why the flag is unsupported (bugs can always be reported I just don't want to see "Late deleted my files").

[Zspaghetti]

Thanks for the quick answer!

I'm on Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3 (Ubuntu VM). Ctrl+V and middle-click paste both work fine in other apps including the terminal, so it does seem specific to Late (middle click also fails).

I wasn't aware of double-click-to-copy; I know there was an issue with
| that formatting
| copied text
Nonetheless selecting the parts i wanted was nice. Trying the new feature, it copies in the VM but it doesn't get sent to the host so i cannot realistically interact that way.

As explained, since Ctrl+A is taken by the file picker, there's currently no way to select my own WIP prompt in the input box before sending. I like to copy my prompts for later and work on them in another text editor.

[mlhher]

Thanks for the extra detail.

Ctrl+V in Linux terminals usually does not paste, it usually is Ctrl+Shift+V. This is why the report confuses me a little. It may be something specific to your terminal or VM clipboard setup?

In Gnome, even with middle-click paste enabled, neither Ctrl+V nor middle-click paste works for me inside Ptyxis, regardless of the TUI. Only Ctrl+Shift+V does.

The yolo flag is a bug and will be fixed. Ctrl+A will be decoupled and moved to another keybind. I’ll need to look into manual text selection; it seems Bubble Tea (TUI lib) is interfering with it a little.

If you want to compose prompts in the meantime, I suggest using /compose, which lets you edit prompts in your preferred editor.