Ralf Gans wrote on Monday, February 02, 2009 8:57 AM:
> On 02.02.2009, at 11:05, xerces8 wrote:
>> I noticed that when copying text from a the Cygwin Bash window and
>> then pasting it somewhere (like WordPad), tabulator characters are
>> converted to spaces.
>>
>> The same happens with RXVT too.
>>
>> Details:
>> - print the content of some text file that has tabs (like a C
>> program source) : cat foo.c
>> - select and copy the text with the mouse
>> - paste (ctrl-V) into WordPad
>>
>> The text in Wordpad has no more tabs.
>>
>> Is there a way around this ?
>
> copy an paste from window to window takes what's printed, not what
> you have written.
>
> So, if the terminal prints spaces to represent the tabs, as a
> terminal usually does, you CAN only copy spaces.
>
> All else is an exception, U*X ist NOT wysiwyg!
Think about using putclip instead.
$ cat foo.c | putclip -d
$ putclip -d < foo.c
$ putclip --help
putclip version 0.2.0
Copy stdin to the Windows Clipboard
Usage: putclip [OPTION...]
General options
-d, --dos Clipboard text will have DOS line endings.
-u, --unix Clipboard text will have UNIX line endings.
-n, --no-conv Do not translate line endings.
Help options
-?, --help Show this help message
--usage Display brief usage message
--version Display version information
--license Display licensing information
NOTE: by default, no line ending conversion is performed.
You also might want to familiarize yourself with getclip.
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