Enable Copy on Select in Windows Terminal

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If you are coming from using any *nix terminal to Windows Terminal, there is probably one feature you are really missing. Copy on select, immediately copying any text you highlight to the clipboard, is not enabled by default.

Luckily, this can easily be remediated by adding the following line to the global defaults area of your settings file.

"copyOnSelect": true,

copy_on_select

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