The following is extracted from a post by Ray Donnelly, a MinGW-w64 contributor. It enlightens on the subject and is essential preamble to my question. There are 3 systems, MSYS2 and 32-bit and 64-bit Native Windows systems. Each system has its own repository of software packages in the MSYS2 distribution. […] that is an important … Read more
It’s caused by Windows security settings. Open the folder’s Properties settings from the context menu. In the Security tab, click Edit, press Add… in the pop-up window and add your user to the list, check Full Control in the Allow column. Press OK twice to apply the changes.
Right-click on the title bar of the command window and select ‘Properties’, then on the ‘Options’ tab tick the box for the ‘QuickEdit mode’, then click ‘Ok’. After that you can paste text from the clipboard using the right mouse-button, highlight text while holding down the left mouse-button and copy selected text using the ENTER … Read more