In PureOS Crimson, it seems like it no longer works to copy text from SMS messages in chatty. It used to be possible to long-press (long tap, long touch, whatever you call it) on a message and then there was a popup menu where you could select to copy the message text to the clipboard, but that does not seem to work in Crimson.
(A typical situation when I want this is when an SMS message has arrived with some details about a package delivery or similar, that I want to paste into an email or into a matrix client.)
Does anyone know a way to do it, or some setting that could be changed to make it work, or something?
I came up with the following workaround, from the commandline. First sudo apt install sqlite3 and then dump the chatty database to a text file like this:
$ echo ".dump" | sqlite3 ~/.purple/chatty/db/chatty-history.db > tmp-db-dump.txt
Then you can use grep to find the messages you want in the resulting tmp-db-dump.txt file.