* Mike Stump: > 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.
There's a mitigating factor: If you past it into another Emacs in an xterm of the same width, all lines are wrapped. This provides a strong incentive to remove at least some of the trailing whitespace.
