Pathing in the D ecosystem is generally broken (at least on windows)

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 29 16:50:37 PDT 2015


On 9/29/2015 1:58 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> There have certainly been times where I've wanted to copy text that was not
> selectable for some reason (or selectable but not copyable), but it sounds like
> you have a much higher expectation of text selectability than I do.

Cases that frustrate me:

1. In filing a bug report, I need to input the version number. For Internet 
Explorer, I bring up the "About Internet Explorer" dialog box. The version is (I 
kid you not) a 55 character string of random digits and letters. I want to 
cut&paste this. Not possible.

2. I get a dialog box popping up with an error message in it. I want to google 
the error message. Have to retype it.

3. Thunderbird Mail lets me import/export the address book. But not account 
settings. So I want to select and copy the account settings dialog box. Nope.

Really, what's the case for not supporting this? Am I really a unique snowflake?



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