[Command Prompt] : User is not able to Select commands using 'Shift+ right/Left arrow keys' inside Command Prompt.

[Saiteja341]

Windows Terminal version

1.12.3472.0

Windows build number

22509.1011

Other Software

**Test Environment: **
OS: Windows 11 Version Dev (OS Build 22509.1011)
App: Windows Terminal Preview
Screen Reader: Narrator

Steps to reproduce

Repro Steps:

1.Open Windows Terminal.
2.Open 'Command prompt' using 'Ctrl + Shift + 2' keys.
3.Now type any text in text-area of 'Command prompt'.
4.Now try to select the command text using 'Shift + right/left arrow'.
5.Observe the issue.

Users Experience
Users who rely on keyboard will get impacted here & fail to use the 'Command prompt' effectively, if User is not able to Select commands using 'Shift+ right/Left arrow keys' inside Command Prompt.

Attachment :

User is not able to Select commands using 'Shift+ right or Left arrow keys' inside Command Prompt..zip

Expected Behavior

User should be able to Select commands using 'Shift+ right/Left arrow keys' inside Command Prompt, which is happening in 'Windows Power shell' tab.

Actual Behavior

User is not able to Select commands using 'Shift+ right/Left arrow keys' inside Command Prompt.

[elsaco]

@Saiteja341 Shift+RightArrow is a function of PSReadLine. IFIK, cmd doesn't use PSReadLine.

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

@elsaco, in PSReadLine, the Shift+arrow combination can only select text in the command that the user is editing. In conhost, the Shift+arrow combination can select the prompt and earlier lines as well.

Similar functionality for Windows Terminal has been requested in #715 so this one could be considered a duplicate of that.

[elsaco]

@KalleOlaviNiemitalo you're correct! Also, if the action is started by the mouse pointer, like selecting one char only, then Shift+RightArrow or Shift+LeftArrow works for extending the selection in a cmd tab.

[zadjii-msft]

Our plan of record at the moment is to use mark mode (see #5804) to enable this functionality. This won't have exact parity with the vintage console's shift+arrows for selecting text in cmd.exe, but it should be close enough, with the possibility of being more powerful.