On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:41 AM, <codewiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
Ah. Good that it's possible... but... a novice programmer is expected to know this... how? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
