On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 5:42 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > What happens when you right click depends on the program you are interacting > with. When you select and right-click in the current Windows 10 console, > used for Command Prompt, PowerShell, Python, and other programs, the > selection disappears. I just discovered that it also copies to the > clipboard. I also just discovered that right click without a selection > pastes the current clipboard contents. (I usually use ^X, ^C, and ^V.) > Since the console is in the process of being improved, I have no idea how > long this has been true.
Prior to Windows 10, the console uses either "quick-edit" or "mark" mode for text selection. If "QuickEdit Mode" is selected in the console properties, mouse events are consumed internally by the console to support text selection. When text is selected, the enter key or right-click copies it. Other keys, including Ctrl+C, cancel the selection. If no text is selected, then right-click pastes the contents of the clipboard. You can also select "Copy" and "Paste" from the edit menu. Quick-edit mode can cause problems since it's easy to accidentally select text, which causes most console functions (e.g. reading from the input buffer) to block until the selection is copied or cancelled. Quick-edit mode also incompatible with text-interface applications that require mouse input. If quick-edit mode is disabled, by default right-click should display the edit menu, which has a "Mark" command. In mark mode you can use the cursor keys (arrows, home, end, page up/down) to position the cursor, and hold shift plus the cursor keys to select text. You can also use the mouse to select and copy text in mark mode. Windows 10 In the new console, selecting "enable Ctrl key shortcuts" enables special support for control characters. In this mode, the old control characters can still be entered by including the shift key (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+V to get ^V). Without shift, we have, for example, Ctrl+F to find text, Ctrl+M to enter mark mode, Ctrl+A to select all text, and Ctrl+V to paste from the clipboard. Regardless of this setting, if text is selected, Ctrl+C copies it to the clipboard. Otherwise, with the default settings and no text selected, Ctrl+C sends a CTRL_C_EVENT to all processes attached to the console. If "extended text selection keys" is selected, text can be selected starting at the current cursor position using the cursor keys while holding shift. Mouse selection is also supported after you start selecting text with the keyboard. It's like mark mode, except only from the current cursor position. If "enable line wrapping selection" is enabled, text is selected by line and wraps as if the screen buffer were a continuous line. Hold Alt to get the classic rectangle selection. The Alt key actually acts like a toggle here. If "enable line wrapping selection" is not selected, then the default is rectangle mode and holding Alt switches to line mode. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
