Copying and pasting on the command prompt (Quick Edit Mode)

Most IT people at some point find themselves opening up a windows command prompt (cmd), and you may also want to Copy and Paste, which you can do. BUT the command prompt's interface for copying and pasting can only be accessed via its rather hidden Edit menu, which can be seen below.

If you knew you could do this, you probably would agree that this is a rather tedious process, and you can't even select the text the way you want to either. Now luckily windows can make this easier for you, but (for some reason!), it doesn't do this by default. If on the above menu, you select properties, you can then enable Quick Edit Mode, as shown.

Quick Edit Mode is much more intuitive and easier to use than the command prompt's default behaviour. Simply use the left mouse button to drag and select text, and then the right mouse button to Copy. From the clipboard you can paste it as normal,  or if you want to paste it back into a command prompt, simply right click!

When saving this change, you can have it only effect your current session, or choose to "Save properties for future windows with the same title".

I like to go one step further, and have Quick Edit mode on by default in any command prompt I open (i.e. VS command prompt), which you can do with a simple registry tweak.

Hope that helps make your time on the command prompt a bit easier!