When using the cmd window you can mark text using Alt-Space for menu, E for edit, Enter to begin mark, position cursor to start of selection, hold shift position cursor to end and press enter to copy to clipboard, and finally Alt-Space, E, P to paste. Although its an annoyingly long key sequence its pretty much automatic and I don't think about it much, but the block mode often requires multiple selections which is just awful even with a mouse.
I ran across a blog comment somewhere suggesting using rxvt for easier copy/paste functionality. Although the mouse based copy/paste is certainly easier and fewer keystrokes required to paste text, I would much rather avoid the mouse as much as possible. However, I cannot seem to find find any way to mark text with keyboard in rxvt. I also found mintty has a lot of nice options, but still can't seem to find any way to copy text without a mouse. Am I missing something? Thanks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple