[Tutor] key detection

[Brandon McCaig]

Dave:

Sorry for the late reply, but it sounds like it could help a few people here...

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
> Many people don't realize that you can turn on a better screen copy feature
> for the CMD window (DOS box) in Windows.
>
> I've given up Windows, and no longer remember how, but the feature is called
> something like auto-copy and can be turned on for all DOS box windows.
>
> Once on, you select by dragging with the mouse, and insert by right-click.
> Still has to be a rectangle, but better than nothing when redirection lets
> you down.

The feature you're looking for is called "QuickEdit Mode". There is a
checkbox in the Options tab of the cmd.exe properties dialog. While
you're at it, I recommend configuring the cursor size and optionally
the command buffer size. Then switch tabs and see if you can configure
a better font. Then switch to the layout tab and hard-code a
full-screen size for the window. Everybody knows the stupid cmd.exe
window cannot be dynamically sized, but you can manually configure the
screen buffer and window size to get something much more friendly.
cmd.exe sucks, but if you take a few minutes to configure it then it
sucks considerably less. Add clink to make it suck a bit less still.

HTH.

Regards,


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