From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
25131@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25131: thwarted from copying what one sees in Info
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 17:25:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmwpfbhfjw.fsf@hawking.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83oa0niuh5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:17:58 +0200")
On Dez 07 2016, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:29:36 +0100
>> Cc: 25131@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > Go to e.g.,
>> > (info "(coreutils) Sorting the output")
>> >
>> > See that line at the top,
>> > ... > ... > ... >
>> > Looks good, right? Let's try to copy it with ^K.
>> > As much as you try, you will only get
>> > File: coreutils.info, Node: Sorting the output...
>> >
>> > One needs to probably use emacs -nw in order to copy it.
>>
>> I guess it's an overlay, so it is like that by design.
>
> Indeed.
>
> We could perhaps provide a command to copy that string, patches
> welcome.
The string is available from the C-x = buffer.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-07 7:30 bug#25131: thwarted from copying what one sees in Info 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2016-12-07 11:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-12-07 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-07 16:25 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2016-12-07 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<mvmwpfbhfjw.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
[not found] ` <<83lgvrisjv.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-12-07 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-07 11:35 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2016-12-07 16:32 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2016-12-07 17:02 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-07 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-07 17:11 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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[not found] ` <<3529e973-7e42-49b9-9bf0-85cba12a91af@default>
[not found] ` <<83k2bbil94.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-12-07 23:21 ` Drew Adams
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