Cut and paste in cmd.exe window XP

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Todd Sowter

I would like to know what happened to the cut and paste features that were
in Win2000 or how to turn them on in XP. In a Win2000 cmd.exe window you can
left click, drag and select text then hit enter to copy it to clipboard.
Pasting clipboard text into a win2000 cmd.exe window is as simple as right
clicking - the text is pasted into the current prompt line.

You can perform the cut and paste operations in XP but you need to walk
through the EDIT menu to get there.

Can anyone please tell me how to turn the mouse button functionality on in
XP?

Thanks
Todd

PS - I realise this is not an XP group but since there is no
"microsoft.public.windowsxp.cmdprompt.admin", I confident I'll have a better
chance here.
 
You can perform the cut and paste operations in XP but you need to walk
through the EDIT menu to get there.

Can anyone please tell me how to turn the mouse button functionality on in
XP?
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Select "Properties" of the the same menu where "Edit" is located and
check "Quick Edit Mode". Note that this isn't turned on by default in
Win2K so it must have been activated by someone.

Clay Calvert
(e-mail address removed)
Replace "W" with "L"
 
Thanks Clay.

Clay Calvert said:
Select "Properties" of the the same menu where "Edit" is located and
check "Quick Edit Mode". Note that this isn't turned on by default in
Win2K so it must have been activated by someone.

Clay Calvert
(e-mail address removed)
Replace "W" with "L"
Click to expand...
 
For what it's worth, enabling Quick Edit will disable mouse functionality in
cmdprompt applications.

\\ MadDHatteR
 
So you're saying that I may start to struggle in using my old copy of
WordPerfect 5.1 with quickedit turned on?
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Au contraire - who's ever heard of anyone using WordPerfect with a
mouse? We leave these toys and barriers to productivity to executives,
presidents, chair persons, and such.

There are those who know how to do word processing and what the right
tools are, and those who spend many an unproductive hour rearranging
their program's toolbar. Unfortunately, the latter often decide the
tools for the former.
 
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