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Re: How do I Copy an error message to a text document, as text?

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• Subject: [mg46060] Re: [mg46026] How do I Copy an error message to a text document, as text?
• From: Yasvir Tesiram <tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
• Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 02:29:30 -0500 (EST)
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Hmm curious,
With just the text selected;
CopyAs -> Plain Text and then Cmd-V into TextEdit worked for me. I don't
see why BBEdit would be any different. Mind you I only tested on 4.1 and
5.0. Maybe something was different in 4.2.
If the cell is chosen, then a pesky From In[2]:= line gets inserted, but
just selecting the text worked.

Yas


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, AES/newspost wrote:

> How do I Copy an error message to a text editor document (BBEdit, to be
> specific) as just plain text (what I see in the notebook cell)?
>
> I think I've now tried every possible Copy and Copy As . . .  option in
> the Mac front end menus for Mathematica 4.2, with the text selected and
> with the cell bracket selected; and every one of them (fourteen cases in
> all) gives me a messy version of the error message with a bunch of
> formatting markup stuff inserted.
>
> Frustrating!!!
>

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    • From: AES/newspost <siegman@stanford.edu>