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How is copying in the windows terminal hard? Highlight and press enter.
by justsomedood 15y ago
How is copying in the windows terminal hard? Highlight and press enter.
- glhaynes 15y agoIt's not that it's terribly hard, it's that it's annoyingly different from most other places in the system. Just one more thing to remember. Oh and it's a bit error prone too - I can't remember whether this is different on newer versions, but it at least used to be too easy to accidentally close your window if you misclicked while doing a copy or paste. On a laggy remote connection this can be particularly annoying.
- spacemanaki 15y agoI just tried to do that on a Win7 machine sitting next to me and it didn't work... it doesn't seem to let me highlight anything at all? I normally wouldn't comment about something like this but I wanted to do this literally 10 minutes before I read your comment. Anyway I don't think it's controversial to suggest that the stock terminal on Windows kind of sucks, although I gather that PowerShell is pretty good.
- Someone 15y agoHit alt-space (?) or click in the top left corner to open the system menu (?). It has menu items for copy and paste; 'Properties' allows one to enable a more useful way of copy/paste (QuickEdit mode, IIRC). It isn't enabled by default in case people want to run DOS apps with mouse support. Someone should start a pool for people predicitng when this default will be changed.
- lurker14 15y agoPowerShell is a shell, not a terminal. Yes, Windows default terminal is awful. Console2 fixes the problems.
- georgieporgie 15y agoThe Windows console is horrible. Try Console 2. My preference is to enable "Copy on select" and "Clear selection on copy", and map Ctrl-V to paste. http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
- code_duck 15y agoEnter? Is that really how you do it? Could they have chosen a more unintuitive, illogical and non-standard key?