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From: "Jonathan Pryor" <jonpryor AT vt DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: satisfied customer + RFC
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:15:38 -0400
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Concerning the "Quick Edit" of the NT Command Prompt...

You can actually copy and paste the text with the
right mouse button -- you don't need to use the menu frames
Edit sub-menu.  Quite useful.

 - Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Schulz <rschulz AT Teknowledge DOT COM>
To: rroos AT alleg DOT edu <rroos AT alleg DOT edu>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: satisfied customer + RFC


>Hi,
>
>Given that you are using Windows NT, the scrolling you wish for is easily
>accomplished. Mouse the title-bar icon of your BASH window or right-mouse
>anywhere in the title bar and select the "Properties" command. In the
>"Layout" pane of the resulting dialog you can specify the size and
>(optionally) the position of the window. You can also independently size
>the buffer that backs the window display. If the screen buffer is larger in
>either dimension that the window itself, then there will be a scroll bar
>for that dimension. The units of measure are character cells.
>
>When you confirm this dialog you'll be asked whether you want the change to
>apply only to this window or to: a) the shortcut used to launch this
>application (if you used a shortcut, which I recommend) or b) the program
>itself, if you launched the executable file directly.
>
>There are also lots of other control-freak things you can do in the
>Properties dialog of a Windows NT character subsystem window. You can
>choose fonts and colors, for example. I recommend that you enable the
>"Quick Edit" mode in the "Options" pane. Then you can select text with the
>mouse and hit Enter to copy it to the system clipboard. Pasting (equivalent
>to typing the characters in the clipboard) must still be done via the
>window frame menu's edit sub-menu.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Randy Schulz
>Teknowledge Corp.
>Palo Alto, CA USA
>
>(Another satisfied Cygwin user)
>
>At 01:37 PM 4/22/99 , you wrote:
>>About a year ago I installed B19...
>>
>>LINGERING COMPLAINTS: Still no "script" command (would be unnecessary, I
>>suppose, if I could get scrolling turned on in the Cygwin window!). Would
>>like a better debugger. The string class is incompatible with ifstream and
>>ofstream (e.g., "string s; ifstream in; cin >> s; in.open(s);" doesn't
work).
>>
>>Thanks. Apologies in advance for faqs or dumb questions.
>>
>>Bob Roos
>>rroos AT alleg DOT edu



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