how to copy some text from tooltip messages to clipboard

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Is there a way to copy some text from the tooltip warning message to the clipboard ?

Simple example (see attached printscreen) - I am trying to copy "-Xlintunchecked" text from the tooltip shown below, I am able to select a text using mouse, but when trying to copy using Ctrl-C or mouse right-click (in the hope that a context menu with copy option will be there), the tooltip dissapears.

Maybe it is somewhere something similar to "Problems view" in Eclipse, where I could see this warning message and copy it to the clipboard ?

In Eclipse it is very easy and intuitive, you can copy text fragments from warnings/messages directly from the editor.

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Hi!

Actually there is a way, try using At + Click: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-65636#comment=27-1800459 

 

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Using Alt + Click works fine for copying the entire tool-tip, but the majority of the time the entire message is not desired as we only need a single word or phrase from the balloon.

This used to work with standard copy commands. 

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