Describe the bug
The conversation scrollbar renders a ┃ (U+2503) glyph in the rightmost column of the timeline. When I select a response with the mouse to copy it to the system clipboard, the selection includes that column — so every copied line ends with padding spaces and a trailing ┃. This makes it effectively impossible to copy clean output (code, commands, paths) out of the CLI.
This regressed with the introduction of the always-on scrollbar; copying worked fine for months before that.
Note: this is distinct from #3501, which is about the scrollbar causing line misalignment / reflow. This report is specifically about the copy/paste UX — the pasted output is unusable.
Affected version
1.0.65 – 1.0.68
Steps to reproduce the behavior
- Run any prompt that produces multi-line output.
- Drag-select the response with the mouse and copy to the system clipboard (not
/copy).
- Paste into any editor.
- Every line has trailing spaces + a
┃ character appended.
Expected behavior
Selecting and copying output should yield clean text, with no scrollbar glyph or padding appended to each line — as it did before the scrollbar was added.
Additional context
- Workaround:
/settings scrollbar off (or "scrollbar": false in ~/.copilot/settings.json) removes the track and fixes copying. But the default is on, so this affects everyone by default.
/copy only helps for the latest response, not arbitrary or earlier output.
- OS: macOS 26.3.1, aarch64
- Shell: zsh, running in the integrated terminal of IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1 and Android Studio Panda 2 (2025.3.2)
Describe the bug
The conversation scrollbar renders a
┃(U+2503) glyph in the rightmost column of the timeline. When I select a response with the mouse to copy it to the system clipboard, the selection includes that column — so every copied line ends with padding spaces and a trailing┃. This makes it effectively impossible to copy clean output (code, commands, paths) out of the CLI.This regressed with the introduction of the always-on scrollbar; copying worked fine for months before that.
Affected version
1.0.65–1.0.68Steps to reproduce the behavior
/copy).┃character appended.Expected behavior
Selecting and copying output should yield clean text, with no scrollbar glyph or padding appended to each line — as it did before the scrollbar was added.
Additional context
/settings scrollbar off(or"scrollbar": falsein~/.copilot/settings.json) removes the track and fixes copying. But the default is on, so this affects everyone by default./copyonly helps for the latest response, not arbitrary or earlier output.