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I want to cut and paste from cmd and keep the color information when pasting to another application. It's similar to pasting in most applications with formatting information.

Is there a way to do this? Or can it be done with an app similar to cmd?

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The PowerShell folks, on their blog, posted an article titled: Colorized capture of console screen in HTML and RTF

Once it's in a RTF file, with colors, open the RTF with Word or OpenOffice and copy the text to your target application.

As PowerShell is a nice replacement of cmd.exe with a lot more features, give it a try.

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It's not so much a replacement as an alternative. Compatibility dictates that it can't replace cmd :-) – Joey Dec 2 '09 at 14:54
Yes, you're right, Johannes! "Danke schön" for the clarification :-) . – Snark Dec 2 '09 at 15:00
+Awesome! Thanks. It was a bit confusing at first since I had never used PowerShell, but it worked exactly as described. – Keith Bentrup Dec 3 '09 at 11:08
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Colours in cmd are not the same as normal colours, it's the interpreter interpreting colour codes. I do not believe it's possible to do, and checking in Console2, it can't do it either, so it's probably for a very good reason.

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AFAIK, Windows Console doesn't support ANSI colour codes (as Unix terminal emulators do); the program must call special functions to set the text colour. Also, a program can read the complete contents of its screen buffer (that's how that PowerShell snippet works) -- and it would be possible to make Console2 remember everything too. There's no real reason preventing it. – grawity Dec 2 '09 at 13:53
Well, I'm often wrong ;) I assumed the two would work similarly, as cygwin's tools have working colour, but they must have implemented that themselves. – Phoshi Dec 2 '09 at 16:16
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There is a long winded way of doing it, using screen capture?

  1. Hit Alt+PrtScr
  2. This will copy the window to the clipboard
  3. From Start, enter mspaint
  4. Click on Edit/Paste or Ctrl-V to paste the contents of clipboard
  5. Edit it to only show the command box and save it to jpg/png.

Then those screen capture shots, will be ready to be inserted into Word as an image for documenting purposes.

Hope this helps, Best regards, Tom.

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