On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 03:14:02PM -0400, Nick wrote: > Oh, I know why. It's because it's in the copy part, not the paste > part; try "printf 'XXX\n\n\nXXX\n' | xclip" and it'll paste fine in > st. I guess I don't copy much out of terminals using the mouse.
Yes, I understood the fault was on st's side -- the paste example wasn't meant to be interpreted as pasted back into the terminal, but pasted anywhere. > > Is this a bug or deliberate design decision? > > A bug, presumably. I would think so as well, but I've been wrong before; apparently breaking color compatibility with practically every other terminal with 256 color support [is a feature][1], so some commentary from one of the official / core maintainers would be nice. [1]: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1312/18466.html Eric
