From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: copy minibuffer output with the mouse
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:22:00 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-00CA07.03220107122003@netnews.attbi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1264.1070752478.399.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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
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2003-12-07 8:22 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2003-12-07 12:26 ` copy minibuffer output with the mouse Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-06 19:41 Dan Jacobson
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