Selections in terminal should invert colors like in bash

[Tyriar]

Made a request to xterm xtermjs/xterm.js#75, it will be too tedious to do without scripting the CSS on our side though unless they go back to a JS API for theming.

[coreh]

You can get the selection Range with document.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).

You could then extract the client rects that form it via: range.getClientRects(), and create a lot of absolutely positioned white divs of the right sizes with mix-blend-mode: difference;. That way they reverse whatever is below them.

Would also need to use pointer-events: none on the divs so that they don't affect the selection.

[Tyriar]

I've actually already done this as part of #7288

Using ::selection, I take the color and make it the selection background-color, then with the make the background-color the selection color. It turned out really nicely:

[coreh]

Wow, that indeed looks way better than the current selection... Time for me to get on that Insiders build I guess haha. It's moving so fast! 👏

[Tyriar]

@coreh 😄 this will probably sit in PR for a day or 2 so land in insiders around the same time. But yeah, the daily insiders just started like an hour ago and already has some useful fixes in it.

[Tyriar]

Landed in insiders