windows Copy & Paste

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 12:47 PM
> To: Steve Wiltsie
> Cc: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: windows Copy & Paste
> 
> 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.


Ken,

Above suggestion came from Mike Schwartz.  I just confirmed that it worked.

Richard