Why does pressing Ctrl, Alt, Shift create a copy paste event?

[TobiasWallner]

I was just trying to make my application so, that it would not trigger a re-render on held down control keys when I noticed that they do not create a key event that I could catch but a create an empty copy paste event.
How am I supposted to distinguish them from other 'real' copy paste events?

[TobiasWallner]

I mean the copy paste event is empty, so I could check for an empty string but there is no function that lets me get a reference of the string to just check the size() in an Term::Event. So the only possibility for me is to construct a new std::string using a static_cast and risk a malloc. But I don't want to malloc when I don't need it. Which would not be needed if Term::Event was a std::variant - emphasis on #276 here

[flagarde]

It's a bug I think. I imagine you are on Windows right? Other OS doesn't trigger event only on meta keys press. I think for now to be consistent we should skip them too

[TobiasWallner]

Yes I am on windows

[TobiasWallner]

If they were just empty events that would be great.

[flagarde]

Will add a PR to skip them for now

[flagarde]

@TobiasWallner Please submit an issue to not forget that should be fixed