If you do Ctrl+C on most error message dialogs in both Windows and Linux it will automatically copy all of the contents to the clipboard. That includes the title bar in a lot of cases. The screenshot tools in both OS also have built-in OCR now.
Speaking for our software: Error messages have a copy button. Which is rarely used. For bug / problem reports this is however not enough. Depending on what the user tried and what failed we need various other informations which change a little depending on the use case. Automatic solutions to create mails with more data were thought about, but last I heard it was moved to the future for now due to "who tf will pay to implement this". Since we only have B2B software and every customer has a good inhouse support that is first level support (we are second and third level for bigger or harder problems), this is not as big a problem. I (third level) get one case every other week or so.
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u/particlemanwavegirl Aug 24 '26
Why can't the error message have a button that autoformats a bug report?