How to prevent auto-copying when using clipboard: terminal?

[ma-tecik]

Hello. I'm using micro on my Linux terminal via SSH from macOS/iTerm2 and noticed an issue with clipboard behavior.

When I set "clipboard": "terminal", any text I select in micro gets automatically copied to my system clipboard. I'd like to disable this automatic copying while keeping terminal clipboard support enabled.

iTerm2 setttings:

• "Applications in terminal may access clipboard" is enabled, OSC52 is fully supported.
• "Copy to clipboard on selection" is disabled.

[Bellavene]

Terminal state > Mouse Reporting is on? If not, turn it on in the profile you use.
This has nothing to do with micro : )

[ma-tecik]

It's on.

This only happens in micro when I set clipboard to terminal. When I set it to external or internal, I can select any text and nothing happens as long as I don't press Ctrl-C but when I set it to terminal, I shouldn't select any text or else it get copied automatically.

I also tried pico, nano and vim (I can't use vim, by the way) and that didn't happen so I thought that's about micro but I'll try kitty ASAP.

Thanks for the reply.

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Yeah, it works flawlessly in kitty but I couldn't fix it even when I look at all of the iTerm2's settings. Thanks again.

[Bellavene]

That's strange. For me, it works. Which version of micro?

[ma-tecik]

micro v2.0.14, iTerm2 v3.5.13. Both installed via Homebrew. I'll switch to kitty probably.

[Bellavene]

But it works for me. Almost same setup, only iterm is 3.5.11 because next versions are pretty slow for me.

[ma-tecik]

Thanks, I couldn't try older versions but I'll try and write one day.

[niten94]

Text is copied to the primary clipboard when selected regardless of operating system by default in micro, but this can be disabled by setting the useprimary option to false.

I think only Linux GUI has primary clipboard, but iTerm2 seems to accept text copied to primary clipboard via OSC 52 even if Mac OS doesn't have it.

[ma-tecik]

Thanks a lot, I didn't think about that possibility actually.