I just gotta vent

[timns]

In the name of all that's holy, who put 'Close' next to 'Edit' in the cmd window's menu? What's 'Close' even DOING in the MIDDLE of the menu? 

Sweet cracker sandwich! Just closed two windows in a row when trying to paste... 

[mouser]

i must admit that's a bit naff.

[timns]

Don't MS have some sort of style guide for menu layouts?

I mean, ok, it happens because I wave the mouse around wildly and click randomly, but come on...

[4wd]

Turn on Quick Edit Mode under Properties->Options then you only need to right-click in the window to paste.  To copy text, left-click drag-select, (ie. highlight), then right-click.

The almost absolute first thing I do on a new install

[timns]

Turn on Quick Edit Mode under Properties->Options then you only need to right-click in the window to paste.  To copy text, left-click drag-select, (ie. highlight), then right-click.

The almost absolute first thing I do on a new install

Nice. Live and learn eh?

Thanks. 

[Deozaan]

Turn on Quick Edit Mode under Properties->Options then you only need to right-click in the window to paste.  To copy text, left-click drag-select, (ie. highlight), then right-click.

The almost absolute first thing I do on a new install

That's not enabled by default? I've never enabled that and I can right-click the window to paste.

Not sure about highlight and right-click to copy, though.

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Okay, I just tested: You can right-click the window to paste by default, but you have to enable Quick Edit to copy text as you described.

[4wd]

On XP, it's not enabled by default and right-clicking will only popup the edit menu - you still need to select Paste from it.

On 7 it's enabled by default - well put it this way, I don't specifically recall enabling it but hey, I could be wrong - 10 months is a long time

Correction: It's the same in Win7, not enabled by default and just opens a popup menu - at least it is in my base W7Ultimate VM.

[Renegade]

+1

Also on CHM help files... It's a PITA.

[Deozaan]

On XP, it's not enabled by default and right-clicking will only popup the edit menu - you still need to select Paste from it.

On 7 it's enabled by default - well put it this way, I don't specifically recall enabling it but hey, I could be wrong - 10 months is a long time

Correction: It's the same in Win7, not enabled by default and just opens a popup menu - at least it is in my base W7Ultimate VM.

Ah, I may have misunderstood. So with Quick Edit enabled, right-clicking pastes instantly? I guess that is pretty quick.

So yeah, without it enabled, right-clicking the cmd window brings up a context menu that allows you to select Paste (among other things).

[4wd]

Ah, I may have misunderstood. So with Quick Edit enabled, right-clicking pastes instantly? I guess that is pretty quick.

So yeah, without it enabled, right-clicking the cmd window brings up a context menu that allows you to select Paste (among other things).

Instant paste and faster Select/Copy but yes you lose the Select All, Scroll and Find... features available from the popup.  But since I never used any of those it was a win-win choice for me

I believe any Windows version originally based on NT has it.