copying and pasting in the terminal window?

[mwoehlke]

John Salerno wrote:
> Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm wondering if there 
> is a way to copy and paste in the command prompt, like in Linux? I 
> figured the cygwin terminal would look and act more like the bash shell, 
> but so far it doesn't for me. Does this mean I'm still using a DOS 
> prompt? (Despite the $ prompt instead of C:\)?

There is a difference between the "shell" and the "terminal emulator". 
In Windows, all console applications (including Cygwin 'bash') get a 
"console window". If you right-click on the window title and see 
'properties', you probably have a "console window". From here, you 
probably want to go to 'options' and turn on 'quick edit mode' (remember 
to 'modify the shortcut that started this window' when prompted). This 
will let you select as you are used to, but you will have to right-click 
to 'copy', and right-click again to 'paste'. Not quite Linux, but better 
than the default behavior.

Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your 
liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like.

-- 
Matthew
'$ time make world' -> real 5d:14h:37m:5.291s  user 0m:0.000s  sys 
4d:2h:14m:43.712s


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