X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Windows command window "quick edit mode" problem Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:34:37 -0500 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam lin q wrote: > Hi, > I am wondering if you have such problem. When I run cygwin, sometimes > I need to do a copy & paste of the cygwin window to other Windows > application. One convinient way to do this is to click "Property" of > the window and enable "Quick Edit Mode". Then I can use mouse to > select any text on Cygwin window, press "Enter" to copy. > > The problem is, I find that when I run some large Makefile to build > my software, quite often it is stuck in the middle; sometimes I need > to press Enter, sometimes Enter does not help either. The problem is that you probably click on the window which causes the Windows cmd box to start a selection of a single character. While the selection process is going on output to the terminal is halted. Why don't you look into rxvt? It's a much more functional terminal than the old Windows DOS box... > Only after I turn off the Quick Edit mode, the problem goes away. > > Do you know how to do with it? > > Thanks. > Lose the advertising below! > _________________________________________________________________ > 5.5%* 30 year fixed mortgage rate. Good credit refinance. Up to 5 free > quotes - *Terms > https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h2a5d&s=4056&p=5117&disc=y&vers=910 > -- Andrew DeFaria ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/