Re: Copy & Paste in a Dos box

2009-05-06 Thread Scott David Daniels
Dave Angel wrote: Mensanator wrote: ... After which, you can dispense with the menus (except when pasting), just select the text and hit . 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 i

Re: Copy & Paste in a Dos box

2009-05-06 Thread Shawn Milochik
> Damn! I may just go back to using Python from the command prompt > instead of using IDLE. > > On second thought, IDLE is way too useful for indenting, dedenting, > commenting and uncommenting blocks of code. Can't go back to using > Notepad. > You might want to check out iPython, then -- it's

Re: Copy & Paste in a Dos box

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Angel
Mensanator wrote: On May 6, 6:15 pm, MRAB wrote: Mensanator wrote: On May 6, 3:46 pm, Dave Angel wrote: Mensanator wrote: And when prompted, do "(.) modify shortcut that started this window" After which, you can dispense with the menus (except when pasting), just se

Re: Copy & Paste in a Dos box

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Angel
norseman wrote: On a straight box - that doesn't work either. The select all does, but paste yanked something from hours ago. Once you have Quick Edit enabled, paste will work using right-click. If it got something from hours ago, then that must be the last time you copied anything to the r

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

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Angel
Mensanator wrote: On May 6, 3:46 pm, Dave Angel wrote: Mensanator wrote: 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 . To paste into a DOS bo

Re: Copy & Paste in a Dos box

2009-05-06 Thread Mensanator
On May 6, 6:15 pm, MRAB wrote: > Mensanator wrote: > > On May 6, 3:46 pm, Dave Angel wrote: > >> Mensanator wrote: > >>> > >>> 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

Re: Copy & Paste in a Dos box

2009-05-06 Thread norseman
Dave Angel wrote: Tim Chase wrote: > for windows this works: (can't cut and paste from a dos box!###%*&!!!) Depending on how it was spawned, you can either right-click in the window and choose Mark/Paste (when marking, use to terminate the selection; and selections are blockwise rectangula

Re: Copy & Paste in a Dos box

2009-05-06 Thread MRAB
Mensanator wrote: On May 6, 3:46 pm, Dave Angel wrote: Mensanator wrote: 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 . To paste into a DOS box, once Quick Edit is enabled,

Re: Copy & Paste in a Dos box

2009-05-06 Thread norseman
Mensanator wrote: On May 6, 12:54 pm, Tim Chase wrote: for windows this works: (can't cut and paste from a dos box!###%*&!!!) Depending on how it was spawned, you can either right-click in the window and choose Mark/Paste (when marking, use to terminate the selection; and selections are block

Re: Copy & Paste in a Dos box

2009-05-06 Thread norseman
Shawn Milochik wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Tim Chase wrote: for windows this works: (can't cut and paste from a dos box!###%*&!!!) Depending on how it was spawned, you can either right-click in the window and choose Mark/Paste (when marking, use to terminate the selection; and sele

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

2009-05-06 Thread Mensanator
On May 6, 3:46 pm, Dave Angel wrote: > Mensanator wrote: > > > > > 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 . > > To paste into a DOS box, once Quick Edit is enab

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

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Angel
Mensanator wrote: 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 . To paste into a DOS box, once Quick Edit is enabled, use Right-Click. They keystrokes will be sent t

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

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Angel
Tim Chase wrote: > for windows this works: (can't cut and paste from a dos box!###%*&!!!) Depending on how it was spawned, you can either right-click in the window and choose Mark/Paste (when marking, use to terminate the selection; and selections are blockwise rectangular rather than line

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

2009-05-06 Thread Mensanator
On May 6, 12:54 pm, Tim Chase wrote: > > for windows this works: > > (can't cut and paste from a dos box!###%*&!!!) > > Depending on how it was spawned, you can either right-click in > the window and choose Mark/Paste (when marking, use to > terminate the selection; and selections are blockwise r

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

2009-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-05-06, Shawn Milochik wrote: >>> That way, you can basically use PuTTY to shell into your >>> Windows box. >> >> Better yet, set up sshd in your Cygwin install, and then use >> whatever terminal you normally use on your Linux/MacOS box to >> ssh into the Cygwin box. ??When run that way, w

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

2009-05-06 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-05-06, Shawn Milochik wrote: > >> I know I'm coming to the conversation late, but here's what I do*: >> >> 1. Use Cygwin. (http://www.cygwin.com/) >> 2. Use PuttyCYG (http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/) >> >> That way, you can basical

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

2009-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-05-06, Shawn Milochik wrote: > I know I'm coming to the conversation late, but here's what I do*: > > 1. Use Cygwin. (http://www.cygwin.com/) > 2. Use PuttyCYG (http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/) > > That way, you can basically use PuTTY to shell into your > Windows box. Better yet, set

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

2009-05-06 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Tim Chase wrote: >> for windows this works: >> (can't cut and paste from a dos box!###%*&!!!) > > Depending on how it was spawned, you can either right-click in the window > and choose Mark/Paste (when marking, use to terminate the selection; > and selections are b

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

2009-05-06 Thread Tim Chase
for windows this works: (can't cut and paste from a dos box!###%*&!!!) Depending on how it was spawned, you can either right-click in the window and choose Mark/Paste (when marking, use to terminate the selection; and selections are blockwise rectangular rather than linewise or characterwise