Copying error messages

[AlanHK]

When I get a mysterious error message from epubcheck or Sigil's F7 check, the first thing I do is Google the message to find what the real problem is.

But to do this I have to laboriously retype the error message. You cannot copy the text.

Sometimes I get dozens of errors and it would be useful to copy them to a text editor and search and analyse them, or keep them as a log. But that is just impossible.

So can the error messages be made copyable text?

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by AlanHK

So can the error messages be made copyable text?

EpubCheck

You can modify EpubCheck.json to copy the raw epubcheck output to the Windows clipboard.

{
  "update_check": true,
  "java_lang": "en",
  "clipboard_copy": true
}

Note that this will delete the current clipboard contents without warning!

Wellformedness check

You can copy the message displayed by the wellformedness check (F7), by clicking the message in the validation pane and pressing CTRL+C.