Copy text from post, and select text to copy

[Fmstrat]

Is Your Feature Request Related to a Problem?

Can't copy text in certain areas of the app, which also leads to translation issues (subset of this report at #187).

The current implementation of copy on comments follows the highly annoying "copy it all" methodology that messaging apps have started using. This is not a good use case for community content, as many content blocks can be large, and a common use case would be to highlight a word or phrase to use in a search later.

There have been other closed issues related to post copying (also a subset), but I believe they were closed accidentally when comment copy was added, see (#162).

Feature Description

• Allow long-press on posts to then highlight and copy specific text from the post using standard OS copy.
• Add "Select text to copy" to the long-press menu on comments, which would bring the cursor into the comment to use standard OS copy.

Alternative Solutions

See above.

Additional Context

N/a

[everdred]

I just came to open an issue just like this one. I found a word in a post I wanted to define, and I was going to long-press to select the word and "share" it to my dictionary application.