Add "Copy to clipboard" as a menu option for output cell

[mika76]

Describe the solution you'd like
Currently you can only "Change Presentation" and "Clear Cell Outputs" - it would be nice to have a button to "Copy to clipboard" as well (at least for text/* mimetypes if nothing else) - saves the whole select all, control-c keyboard shuffle.

Describe alternatives you've considered
The only one I know of is to manually select all and then control-c (output doesn't even have a right-click menu which is an issue on it's own if not irritating, definitely non-accessible)

(PS This is on MacOS)

[jonsequitur]

Are you using the VS Code extension?

[mika76]

@jonsequitur Oh yes sorry - thought this was repo just for that - .net interactive notebook extension for vscode on macos monterrey

[jonsequitur]

This would probably best be solved more generally within VS Code. Here are a couple of related issues:

microsoft/vscode#129880
microsoft/vscode-jupyter#8699

[mika76]

@jonsequitur both those issues are for copying plots/images but I was thinking more text.

Currently you can manually select and press control-c but there is no right-click menu, A copy-all button (or even a share button 😉) could be useful for text outputs. Or any outputs in general.

[jonsequitur]

Good point. A more generalized feature for this would be helpful.

@rebornix Are you aware of any open issues focused on making it easier to copy text from cell outputs?

[rebornix]

@jonsequitur we don't have one particular issue tracking it but I think it's worthwhile to have this in our near term iteration plans. Copying text output right now is not easy and we need to figure out what's the right UX to handle this, either a context menu or a command.