From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: copy minibuffer output with the mouse Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:22:00 GMT Organization: Looking for work Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070785405 14376 80.91.224.253 (7 Dec 2003 08:23:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 09:23:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ASuCI-0005AH-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:23:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ASv9M-0002wX-4D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 04:24:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASv9J-0002te-K6 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 04:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ASv8n-0002bY-SM for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 04:24:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.168.1.22] (helo=trinity.supernews.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1ASv8n-0002bV-K8 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 04:23:49 -0500 Original-Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.202.55]:52800) by trinity.supernews.net with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ASuBL-000DEG-1e for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:22:23 +0000 Original-Received: from ops.asp.att.net (sccrnsc02.ops.asp.att.net[135.173.106.206](misconfigured sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2003120708220101100qnti5e>; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:22:01 +0000 Original-Received: by ops.asp.att.net (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id IAA09720; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:22:01 GMT Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.109.233 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net Original-X-Trace: attbi_s02 1070785320 24.34.109.233 (Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:22:00 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:22:00 GMT X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6242 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6242 In article , Dan Jacobson 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