[SOLVED] copying multiline code from cmd.exe with reasonable newlines

LanX has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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JEEZ! Sometimes it's too easy. ..

Original Question

@work I'm bound to Win7 and sometimes when posting here I use cmd.exe for a little demo and try to copy it into the textarea

Unfortunately (unlike with a linux x terminal) the newlines get totally messed up

D:\Users\lanx>perl -MO=Deparse,-p,-x10 -e"sub {return 1 and 0 }"sub { 
+                                                                     
+  ((return 1) and 0);                                                
+  }                                                                  
+      ;
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instead of

D:\Users\lanx>perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e"sub { return 1 and 0 }"
sub {
    ((return 1) and 0);
}
;
-e syntax OK
[download]

today - I don't know how - I was once able to do it without needing to manually post-process the code.

Any hints how to do it?

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

Je suis Charlie!}

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Re: [SOLVED] copying multiline code from cmd.exe with reasonable newlines by KurtZ (Friar) on Jun 02, 2017 at 22:39 UTC
Pardon my ignorance, but why would you even use <shift enter>, what is the benefit? A puzzled Linux user	[reply]
Re^2: [SOLVED] copying multiline code from cmd.exe with reasonable newlines by LanX (Saint) on Jun 02, 2017 at 23:12 UTC
Well I understand your bewilderment better than I understand cmd.exe, but let me try: ;-) First of all copying is totally different to a xterm. In xterm you have a one dimensional copy, the complete lines between start and end-mark are copied and no newlines are included between automatically wrapped-over lines. In cmd.exe you have only (AFAIK) a rectangular copy. So if you want to copy a command which was wrapped over you need to start your selection to the very left and span to the right edge. And if you do `[ENTER]` instead of `[SHIFT ENTER]` you'd get newlines included at every right end, even if it was an automatic wrap in the middle of a word. like `D:\Users\lanx>perl -e "$_='x';print;print;print;print;print;print;prin +t;print;print;print;print;print;print;pri nt;print" xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx` [download] Of course you can't really copy long commands with random newlines and expect to execute them right away. That's why you quickly get into the habit to use `[SHIFT ENTER]` and no newlines are included. `D:\Users\lanx>perl -e "$_='x';print;print;print;print;print;print;prin +t;print;print;print;print;print;print;print;print"` [download] Colleagues showed me once `[SHIFT ENTER]` and only `[SHIFT ENTER]` and I stuck with this. cmd.exe is - from what I know - not very short cut friendly. You need to mix mouse and and keyboard actions and are happy for any help. I suppose power-shell is better in this respect, I'll try it out one day. HTH explaining the confusion a bit! :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!} PS: in hindsight it seems very off-toppic, but I wasn't sure if some HTML voodoo was interfering here.	[reply] [d/l] [select]