"I can mouse-highlight small portions of it to be copied out?"

First, the command window is not DOS although a lot of ancient DOS commands do work within this window.

To copy and paste things to/from the command window:
- open a command window
- Right click on the title bar
- Under Options select "QuickEditMode" and "InsertMode".
- click "Ok"
- apply changes to all shortcuts that start command window when asked (not just this one)
-To copy text from command window, hold left mouse button and drag over text to highlight it, then tap right mouse button to copy to the "clipboard". Now you can use CRL-V to paste or use mouse menu to do the same in another application. To copy something into the command window, like perhaps a command, get it into the clipboard. Move mouse to the command window and tap the right mouse button to do the insert.

There are various options to increase the buffer size (history) of the command window. Play with that if needed.

To re-execute a previous command (perhaps with some editing), use the "up arrow" to bring last command typed back to the entry line.

Tested on WinXP, but Win7 should work the same.

Update: You have to use the mouse left/right click as I described above. The normal CTL-C (copy) and CTL-V (paste) command shortcuts don't work as Windows Command Window thinks that you are tying that stuff in as an actual command. So copy and paste to/from the command window is a bit different than from a typical editor window (textpad, Windword, wordpad, etc).

In reply to Re^2: MacPerl Replacement for a non-programmer? by Marshall
in thread MacPerl Replacement for a non-programmer? by Anonymous Monk

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