windows Copy & Paste

[Kenneth Brody]

On 10/22/2012 11:20 AM, Steve Wiltsie wrote:
[... Copy/paste in Windows console applications ...]
>> Don't blame filePro, as filePro uses the standard Windows console
>> functionality, and what you describe is not part of it.
>>
>> For console windows, you need to put the window into "mark" mode
> before
>> selecting the text.  I find the keyboard shortcuts for this to be
>> easier than the mouse method -- Alt+space, E, K.  (System menu,
> "Edit",
>> "marK".) At that point, you can either use the mouse (click and drag)
>> or the keyboard (arrows, then shift-arrows) to select the rectangle.
>> To copy the highlighted region, either use system-menu/Edit/copY, or
>> just press Enter.
>>
>> To paste into a console window, Alt+space, E, P.
[...]
>
> I certainly appreciate your reply and what you are describing is exactly
> what he is objecting to - too many steps to make a copy in order to
> paste the copied text.  I was hoping there was a way around this.
>
> I realize filePro is a "Windows Console" application instead of a
> "standard" one but this is very hard to describe to a customer and not
> come off like I don't have any idea what they really want and am just
> making excuses for "it not working right".

Well, filePro *is* a "standard" Windows application -- it's just text-base 
instead of GUI-based.  What I assume you mean is how some Windows *GUI* 
applications work, such as the terminal emulator your client has been using 
for accessing his SCO box.  (And note that there are different ways that 
such programs handle click-and-drag.  For example, my terminal emulator will 
select a range of text, not a rectangular area, though it's possible this is 
configurable in the emulator.)

> This customer explained "It's Windows, Steve, it is supposed to work
> like Windows should".  He does a lot of copy and paste of information
> out of filePro on their SCO Unix system and it very upset it doesn't
> work the very same way in the Windows version of filePro on their
> Windows 2003 server from his XP workstation.
>
> Apparently there is no way around this, is that true?

As Richard Kreiss pointed out, Windows has a console window property 
"QuickEdit Mode" (under properties / options) that appears to do basically 
what you want.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/copy-to-the-clipboard-from-the-windows-command-prompt/

-- 
Kenneth Brody