always unwrap wrapped text when newline occurs at the edge

This is my biggest issue with iterm2 at the moment: when software such as tmux looses distinction bw soft and hard line breaks, it's a pain to copy text in iterm2.

The workaround discussed here https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3590# is not good enough to resolve this issue [we can discuss more on this if needed].

So I have a very simple suggestion: use heuristic (either as default or option) which will unwrap [join] lines when the end of line occurs right at the edge. The edge being determined by current heuristics for horizontal pipes '|'. The unwrapping would occur during copy.

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PS: I've asked on tmux https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/65#issuecomment-124951611 [tmux is not preserving the distinction between soft and hard newlines] and their answer is that tmux doesn't seem to care about distinguishing hard vs soft line wrap (probably for efficiency purposes during scrolling although I wish this could be controlled by a flag).

PS2: one issue with proposed solution in 3590 is that the unwrapping logic occurs upon pasting, not upon copying; so if you copy in iterm2 and paste in another program you still have the bug. There are other issues.

Milestone changed to Future Release

While such heuristics might fix some cases, I'm afraid it would definitely break other ones, e.g. when a simple utility (outside of tmux) prints a couple of lines and one of them happens to be exactly as wide as the terminal. Here you definitely need to preserve that newline. So at the very least the heuristics should be limited to the alternate screen.

I think the solution will be to provide a hook to run a program after copying to the clipboard so the user can fiddle with the clipboards contents using pbcopy or the like.

mentioned in issue #4423 (closed)

This is an issue for me when copying long, single lines from one window to another. Take for example a long regular expression, in an .htaccess file, which wraps onto a few lines like this http://www.screencast.com/t/Ej27nFKw . I am then forced to combine the lines back in my text editor. (In this case there were 3 lines to start with, but I got about 10 after pasting into my editor).

Would a solution like that provided by Penguinet http://www.siliconcircus.com/ work? They have a shift-copy option - which copies without adding the newlines.

Milestone changed to %Review for next version