[Techstack-beta] Make prompts unselectable

[jtojnar]

Describe the glitch

The prompts on the download page regressed yet again. They can be selected, which prevents easy copying. Previously:

• Don't include shell prompt when copying install command #1094
• Move shell prompts to the text #492

Also in Nixpkgs:

• doc: make prompts unselectable on the manuals nixpkgs#301439
• doc: Make callout marks & prompts unselectable nixpkgs#77683

Additional context

It needs user-select: none CSS property.

[thilobillerbeck]

Good point, just anyone grabs this, since we process most of the prompts from markdown, we may can introduce a e.g. remark plugin which processes bash code snippets in such a way, that it has the structure to readily apply the non selectable properties.

Maybe the highlighter also added some consistent naming to the prompt, although we should check upfront how much this is prone to break in the future, since it is clearly not meant to be hooked into

(good job GitHub Mobile btw. for just duplicating my old post and appending the new one onto that when appending... 💀)

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-03-24-marketing-team-minutes/62125/1

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2025-04-07-marketing-team-minutes/62780/1