Thanks to Joel, I now know that you can press Ctrl+C when Windows pops up an error message and have the text of that message copied to the clipboard.
So, this error message...
...becomes this...
--------------------------- metapad --------------------------- Save changes to setuplog.txt? --------------------------- Yes No Cancel ---------------------------
You learn something new every day.
What I’m interested in is how he found out about it. Just a lucky guess?
Swweeeeet. I’ll remember that for my Windows endeavors. Best pass that nugget of information to my co-workers at the Helpdesk - I’m sure they’ll appreciate it. :)
troworld: Could be, but remember that Joel used to be a Microsoft employee. Maybe he was the one who put it there ;).
Now if only somebody would write a plugin that changes it so ctrl-c maps to cancel - oh wait, this isn’t Firefox.
Dang this is a neat trick. It could be a debugging hook for QA (or maybe not).
I found that out before. I think I posted about it some time, but I can’t remember.
I myself got it by accident. But it is a really cool feature, I agree.
Neil: As far as I know he was working on Excel’s macros. I doubt he fiddled around with such things as dialog windows across the OS.
LordRich: what, the Escape key not good enough for ya? (And I think you mean extension, rather than plugin.)