On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Owen Rees wrote: > --On 24 August 2006 10:39 -0700 Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > > Igor> FWIW, my main gripe with Console is that it doesn't > > Igor> understand line wrapping, so cutting and pasting a line that > > Igor> wraps multiple times results in multiple lines. > > > > Yup. And as far as I know, there's no way to tell the console "please > > save the accumulated scrollback into a file". But then I don't think > > rxvt can do that either :-) > > You can select all the available scrolled text with both Console and > rxvt (Console scrolls when you drag off the top/bottom and extends the > selection, rxvt extends the selection with a right mouse click so you > can select, scroll, right click).
In Console, you can extend the selection with Shift-left click. > Once you have copied it all, "cat >somefile" then paste, CR ^D will get > it into a file. Perhaps not quite as simple as having a 'save' option, > but not too hard to do. Even simpler: "cat /dev/clipboard > somefile" (no need to paste). This works immediately with Console and rxvt in W11 mode, but may not work in X until you switch to and from a Windows app (because X has to copy the X selection to clipboard). > If you are using rxvt, long lines that wrapped on display will be long > lines in the file, With Console, there will be line breaks wherever it > wrapped. That's exactly the gripe I mentioned above. > In the context of copying and pasting in a window, I find rxvt far > superior to Console because of the way it handles long lines (as well > copying/pasting the way X does without requiring that X be running). Right. It also keeps the colors better, whereas Console sometimes fails to redraw correctly under heavy CPU loads. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/