copy minibuffer output with the mouse

copy minibuffer output with the mouse

[Dan Jacobson]

The scene: you have just done (shell-command "pwd") or any other shell
command that just leaves a line in the minibuffer.  You reach down
with the mouse to copy part of the output... you should be allowed to here.

Re: copy minibuffer output with the mouse

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1264.1070752478.399.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:

> The scene: you have just done (shell-command "pwd") or any other shell
> command that just leaves a line in the minibuffer.  You reach down
> with the mouse to copy part of the output... you should be allowed to here.
> 
> 

That's not the minibuffer, it's the echo area.  It's only the minibuffer 
when you're responding to a prompt down there.

The stuff that's displayed in the echo area is intentionally transient.  
However, it's saved in the *Messages* buffer, so you can go there and 
copy it.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Woburn, MA

Re: copy minibuffer output with the mouse

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:22:00 GMT
> 
> The stuff that's displayed in the echo area is intentionally transient.  
> However, it's saved in the *Messages* buffer, so you can go there and 
> copy it.

In the CVS version of Emacs, mouse-1 click on the message will
automatically pop the *Messages* buffer to one of the windows.