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Does anyone know how to select a portion of text within a windows command prompt without using a mouse? e.g. shift + left/right arrow. I have tried lots of different command prompts (cmd, powershell, cygwin, mintty) and have yet to find a shell which can do this without using a mouse. I know it's possible as I do it all the time in terminal.app on mac os x.

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As Ignacio said however you need to ensure "QuickEdit Mode" is enabled from the CMD properties.

  1. ALT+Space -> E -> M (now in mark mode)

  2. move the pointer using arrow keys

  3. Hold shift and select the area to copy

  4. Hit Enter and it's now on the clipboard

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Ignore me. Don't need QuickEdit mode – Joel Mansford Jul 12 '10 at 10:45
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AltSpace, Mark, arrow keys, hold Shift, arrow keys, Enter.

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"does not work in mintty" :)) – akira Jul 12 '10 at 8:52
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@akira: mintty probably does not use a Windows console. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jul 12 '10 at 8:56
@Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams How do you make button icons? – AndrejaKo Jul 12 '10 at 9:00
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@AndrejaKo: <kbd>Alt</kbd> – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jul 12 '10 at 9:16
@Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: thats what the smiley at the end was for. – akira Jul 12 '10 at 9:33
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