Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Copying text out of Ethereal windows

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From: "Chris Nelson" <ChrisN@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:30:42 -0400
>Chris Nelson said:
>> I've recently rediscovered Ethereal and it's great but I ran up 
>> against a little thing that's really annoying and seems like a real 
>> oversight. I want to send a little text from an analysis to a 
>> colleague but I can't copy text from the Ethereal windows to my mail 
>> composition window. Ctrl-C doesn't work, the Edit menu has no Copy 
>> item, and there's no Copy on the context menu.  Is there some 
>> rationale for this or is it really only an oversight.
>
>It's not that we don't think copy *should* be supported, it's 
>just that nobody has gotten around to implementing it.  The 
>widgets used for the packet list and packet detail pane don't 
>provide it for free, so somebody'd have to write some code to do it.
>...

OK.  If I could spell GTk, I'd see what I could do but that's not me.
Sorry.  Is there a place I can log this as a feature request?