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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Personal Communications
Categories Front End
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 18, 2025

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Enable copying of presentation space as HTML/RTF

Other terminal emulators offer copying of the text in the presentation space in a format that preserves colors and monospace font choice, which is very useful for including in the documents. PCOMM only offers an option to copy the presentation space as an image, which can't then further be modified (pieces of text can't be bolded, hidden, edited for clarity and so on) and poses big accessibility issues (no readability by screen readers). 

We propose a feature where PCOMM would offer a fourth copy option ("Rich format Copy" or something similar) and it would copy the presentation space in the HTML/RTF format to the clipboard with the current color mapping preserved. Those formats are accepted by all other document editors. 

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Premkumar Swaminathan
    Feb 20, 2026

    Update from dev team.

    In PCOMM, HTML clipboard format copy is not feasible as the source is not HTML, we have an API for RTF not as standard win32 format but registered clipboard format and maybe feasible, we can work on POC if customer needs this for PCOMM.

    Also, would you be interested in using the ZERO footprint emulator client "HEX" where we can evaluate this feature?

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  • Admin
    Premkumar Swaminathan
    Dec 10, 2025

    Hi, Not sure if I understand this requirement. As of current, PCOMM supports "Copy" function as a simple text. So, this means, only the "text" will copied as "text" without having any formats or colours captured.

    When you say "rtf" format, are you referring to the colour and any other formatting options to be included while the text is copied?

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