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

[rumbu via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 19:44:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/28/2015 12:36 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 19:27:52 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> Except that copy/paste does not work in the dialog box (or 
>>> any Windows dialog
>>> box).
>>
>> Yes it does, you can ctrl+c or right click and get to it from 
>> that menu. It
>> works in all Windows edit boxes.
>
> The dialog box itself is not an edit box, and copy simply does 
> not work. (Just tried it again.) You cannot copy ANY text from 
> it, even the highlighted text.
>
> This really blows when you've got a message window with an 
> error message in it, and you cannot copy it to google it. You 
> cannot copy the "About" dialog box text, either, so you have to 
> painfully type in the version/build number when filing a bug 
> report.
>
> Unbelievable.

Dear Walter,

Pressing Ctrl-C in any *standard* dialog will copy the text to 
clipboard since Windows 2000, even captions and buttons.