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The powershell terminal is a little better than the normal CMD shell, but there's some weird stuff there... Why are they still using the block selection for co
by douche 11y ago
The powershell terminal is a little better than the normal CMD shell, but there's some weird stuff there... Why are they still using the block selection for copy-paste? Never has that been what I wanted
- noinsight 11y agoA Slashdot comment (to this link) provided good context why the current console sucks: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3679326&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post437323699 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=367... That's from a ReactOS developer.
- trentnelson 11y agoWhoa, that was a surprisingly interesting thread. (Not so much the console part, but the other questions he answered.)
- to3m 11y agoIt was quite reasonable 25-odd years ago - which, until recently, was probably about when anybody last touched the code... (To make line-based copying and pasting work I would imagine they had to do some quite invasive surgery at some point... the idea that the window is backed by a screen buffer that's a fixed-size grid of (attribute,character) pairs is exposed quite openly in the API.)
- chokolad 11y agoThat was fixed by conhost improvements in Windows 10. Selection is line based now.