On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:16:23PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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).
I invite you to talk to Thomas about that one; he may well agree. That doesn't affect the general case. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
