Michael H. Warfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To be perfectly honest, if an application padded a line out with
>spaces, I would expect to be able to cut and paste those spaces. If
I do not know how to say it any other way. Neither ncurses nor slang
have any idea about the context of what is on the screen. For example,
Who do you blame if you Do you blame ncurses?
do not get what you Perhaps the application
expect when you try to using the screen
cut/paste this management library is
paragraph. the real problem.
The only meaningful question to ask is whether or not the text looks
as it should when displayed on the terminal and whether or not the
update could be made more efficient.
You can upgrade to slang 1.3.9 and then either fix your xterm terminfo
file to indicate that xterm supports BCE, or set the COLORTERM_BCE
environment variable. Either of options will result in using less
spaces for non-default colors, however there is no guarantee that
spaces will not get written if it is more efficient not to write them.
--JOhn
