Hi quick question. Does anyone here know of a utility that lets you simply highlight text to copy it? I use polaris IRC, so I can’t vouch for normal mIRC. But in irc you just highlight the text and it copies for you. No right click->copy/ctrl + c. I would love a utility that incorporates that into windows.
As the author of an IRC client, I can say that feature seems to confuse a lot of people. I believe it started out in mIRC, and judging from the other problems with mIRC’s text highlighting, I’d guess it was done to save the programmer’s time rather than the users’ time. (Ever try selecting text backwards in mIRC? It works in every other Windows program…)
As far as implementing it system wide, you may want to try “xClip - X style copy” from this page.