On 2005-10-25 16:01:43 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:53:23PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote: > > 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.
This can be improved a bit. The fact that ncurses clears the end of a line with spaces instead of an escape sequence when there are a few columns left is 100% ncurses fault, and easy to fix IMHO (just remove the optimization). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
