On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 3:27:06 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Chris Warrick <kwp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 28 January 2018 at 20:19, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The vanilla Windows console (conhost.exe IIRC) is far from ideal for > >> copying and pasting from > > > > It’s been fixed in recent Windows 10 releases (select and Ctrl+C works now). > > Haven't used it, but that's good news at least. > > >> Windows error popups are *impossible* to copy text from. > > > > Most standard error popups support pressing Ctrl+C to copy the text > > displayed in them. > > Really? Most? That would be a HUGE improvement. Historically, only a > handful have actually had selectable text. And really, it has to be > not just the core Windows error popups, but application ones as well; > so it has to be the underlying message-box API that supports it. > > ChrisA
Most popups in applications using the standard Windows dialogs can still be copied from, even if the text doesn't look selectable: - give the dialog a focus - press Ctrl-A (this invisibly selects all text) - press Ctrl-C to copy the text - paste (Ctrl-V) into your favorite text editor. Regards, Igor. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
