Copy & Paste in a Dos box (was: Pyhton script to call another program)

[Dave Angel]

Mensanator wrote:
> On May 6, 3:46 pm, Dave Angel <da... at ieee.org> wrote:
>   
>> Mensanator wrote:
>>     
>>> <snip>
>>>       
>>> And when prompted, do "(.) modify shortcut that started this window"
>>>       
>>> After which, you can dispense with the menus (except when pasting),
>>> just select the text and hit <enter>.
>>>       
>> To paste into a DOS box, once Quick Edit is enabled, use Right-Click.  
>> They keystrokes will be sent to the command editor.  Note that the
>> interpretation is rather literal, so be careful if copy/pasting more
>> than one line, or a line that was wrapped.
>>     
>
> Well I'll be dipped. Didn't know you could do that.
>
> Of course, since I learned how to call programs from the
> script and capture their StdOut, I don't have much call for
> cut/paste from dos windows. Hopefully, I'll remember that the
> next time I need it.
>
>   
As long as we're in Quick Edit mode, another trick is that you can 
double-click on a "word" in a DOS box to select it and copy to 
clipboard.  Obviously it isn't always the exact string you want, but 
sometimes it beats dragging the mouse over the text.