Add "Copy Error Message Text" button to syntax error popups in the Visual Studio text editor

[vsfeedback]

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I was working in C#. In my specific case, I was trying to assign a value to a field in a record after it had been initialized. I hover over the words with red underline and a popup appears saying the error is CS8852 and tells me what the error is. I try to select the text with the mouse and copy it, but I can't. It won't select, so I can't Google it without remembering it and typing it all in.

How about a button to copy the error message text to the clipboard, so I don't even have to bother selecting the text?

Or even better, how about a button to send the text as a search in the default browser? DEFAULT browser. Don't just open up Edge like Windows does when you try and do a search from the Start Menu. That's insufferable.

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Original Comments

Feedback Bot on 7/22/2024, 06:38 PM:

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Mika Dumont [MSFT] on 8/15/2024, 11:32 AM:

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Matt Gregory on 8/15/2024, 03:36 PM:

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[mikadumont]

Looks like the link to error CS8852 isn't listed and is taking users to: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/misc/sorry-we-don-t-have-specifics-on-this-csharp-error?f1url=%3FappId%3Droslyn%26k%3Dk(CS8852)