On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:53:23PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote: > On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > >Emacs in an xterm, from time to time. > > Yeah, I knew about that one, cutting and pasting from any full screen > program running in a terminal emulator tends to be wrong. Tab > characters are usually the first causalities, along with long > lines. :-( I'd propose to encourage people submit bug reports > against xterm/emacs/terminfo/termcap/curses if they care much about > the issue. I think it might be possible to improve the situation alot.
In fact, it really isn't (or at least it's defeated everyone who tried); I spent some time talking with the ncurses maintainer about this earlier in the month. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
