IDE Console Window Single Line Select

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I have just discovered that if you treble-click on the console window, it selects the current line (and then you can copy it with ^c).

Other features:

  • double click selects one word.
  • F8 lets you use the up and down arrows to adjust the console window height. (It’s too slow to be really useful.) End the action with Tab (whatever).

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Which operating system?

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Windows 7 Enterprise SP1.

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I was having trouble getting it to work on MacOS, but it finally did work. I always thought that the inability to copy/paste error messages was a serious drawback to the editor and led to a lot of screenshots being posted. Thanks for telling us about a feature that I never knew existed.

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And you can also use Ctrl-a to select all?

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And you can also use Ctrl-a to select all?

Yes (cmd-a on a Mac).

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Hello folks,

There is also the “Copy to clipboard” button:

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After clicking on it:

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If you press the shift key and click on the button it also does a web search for the error:

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If you are not familiar with the clipboard on Windows:

:)

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I have never been able to get ‘copy to clipboard’ to work on a Mac.