Terminal copy-paste appears in editor not terminal

[xavier630]

While typing in the terminal inside the IDE, if you copy or paste with Talon, it applies the copy or the paste to the editor window (the file contents view) rather than to the current position of the cursor in the terminal. This only seems to affect copying paste and inserting text works fine.

Talon v0.2.0-8 Latest knausj develop (August 2 2021) Encountered on Pycharm (but expect it's the same on all Jetbrains IDES) Pycharm info:

PyCharm 2021.1.2 (Community Edition)
Build #PC-211.7442.45, built on June 1, 2021
Runtime version: 11.0.11+9-b1341.57 x86_64
VM: Dynamic Code Evolution 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
macOS 10.15.7
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 2048M
Cores: 12
Registry: ide.balloon.shadow.size=0
Non-Bundled Plugins: com.github.anonfunc.vcidea (0.0.11), com.chrisrm.idea.MaterialThemeUI (6.6.0)

[anonfunc]

All commands are executed in the context of the current editor. If you need behavior matching the paste shortcut, use the keyboard shortcut.

[xavier630]

Sorry, just for my understanding, are we closing this because it's too difficult to do (in that case maybe it could remain open as a long-term FR) or because we don't want this behavior?

If we don't want this behavior, could you please elaborate a little about why just so that we're on the same page?

[anonfunc]

I closed it because it seemed like a misunderstanding of the plugin and its role in coordination with your Talon scripts. I'll go ahead and re-open it.

The main purpose of this plugin is to run commands in the current active editor in a way that's keybinding agnostic. The remaining functionality is to either provide feedback to the driving Talon package or to implement commands from VoiceCode which are difficult to do without state. (PSI ranges, selecting forward/back, etc.)

This is why the original Talon contexts for IntelliJ tried to detect popup windows and dialogs so that normal commands are used instead. (Looking at the current knausj repo, all of that functionality seems to have been lost. You can test this by opening a modal and attempting to paste.)

Assuming you did modify this plugin to send commands to non-editor components, you'd also need to plumb that state back into Talon so you can send the correct commands. That is, EditorPaste vs Terminal.Paste.

And after all that, you would have built a paste command that does multiple RPC calls and lookups in order to emulate a subset of the behavior of pressing the original keyboard shortcut.