Copy text from your VSCode terminal by selecting it

If you are used to working on a terminal a lot you’ve probably come to love the feature to copy the text you select to your clipboard. Recently I’ve started using VSCode more and more and often ran into the issue that my muscle memory tricked me into selecting some text followed by quickly pasting and executing something else entirely because VSCode’s terminal wasn't configured to copy on select. Turns out this feature has been in VSCode since 2018, you just have to enable it.

• Go to settings (⌘,)
• Search for terminal.integrated.copyOnSelection
• Check the checkmark

Happy copy/pasting!