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

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 29 23:36:45 PDT 2015


On 2015-09-30 01:50, Walter Bright wrote:

> 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.

You clearly are not using the right operating system ;). On OS X I can 
copy text from all native dialogs.

> 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.

Can't you copy the editable text fields? Or do you want to copy the 
labels as well?

Can't you copy the whole profile directory?

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

No, not at all.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list