Hi, I just submitted additional info on your bug report #259828, but forgot
to CC: you. The problem why this is non-trivial is that tabs are not replaced
by spaces (as TD said), but that tabs are cursor movements, which cnanot be
represented as tabs. See below:
I thought about implementing this in rxvt-unicode: tabs could be represented
trivially in rxvt-unicode's data structure. However, there are semantic
problems:
Tabs are not characters, but cursor movements. As such, there is no good way
to represent them as tab characters, just as "cursor up" or "g
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:30:11AM +0200, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:02:20PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:43:38PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> > > Just tried konsole and gnome terminal. Neither of them currently seem
> > > to work this wa
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:02:20PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:43:38PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > Just tried konsole and gnome terminal. Neither of them currently seem
> > to work this way, at least the versions in unstable don't. Even if
> > konsole supported t
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:18:14PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > It seems like the mouse thing would be easy, if a click starts inside a
> > > tab, that tab is part of the selection region. Same policy as clicking
> > > on a space, you just treat tab as a big space. Then again I have never
> > >
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 21:02, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:43:38PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > Just tried konsole and gnome terminal. Neither of them currently seem
> > to work this way, at least the versions in unstable don't. Even if
> > konsole supported this I could n
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:43:38PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Just tried konsole and gnome terminal. Neither of them currently seem
> to work this way, at least the versions in unstable don't. Even if
> konsole supported this I could not use it, it took 10 seconds to start.
I guess you have a
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 20:08, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:52:06PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > Hmm, interesting, so it is fixable. I wonder if any other terminals do
> > this already. It would definitely be a nice usability enhancement.
>
> Actually, I've read that gnome
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 19:45, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:40:06PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 19:30, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:15:33PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > Sorry, I think this is important. It makes it impossible t
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:52:06PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Hmm, interesting, so it is fixable. I wonder if any other terminals do
> this already. It would definitely be a nice usability enhancement.
Actually, I've read that gnome-terminal or konsole (don't recall which) does
allow selection
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 19:30, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:15:33PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Sorry, I think this is important. It makes it impossible to copy and
> > paste a diff into an email and have the patch apply cleanly. As a
>
> well, if it's blocking you, I suggest
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:40:06PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 19:30, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:15:33PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > Sorry, I think this is important. It makes it impossible to copy and
> > > paste a diff into an email and have the p
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 18:34, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:40:08PM +0200, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
> > Severity: important
> ^ (disagree)
> >
> >
> > xterm mangles tabs to spaces when copying/pasting with middle mouse
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:15:33PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Sorry, I think this is important. It makes it impossible to copy and
> paste a diff into an email and have the patch apply cleanly. As a
well, if it's blocking you, I suggest you submit a patch to fix it.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:40:08PM +0200, Lee Revell wrote:
> Package: xterm
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
> Severity: important
^ (disagree)
>
>
> xterm mangles tabs to spaces when copying/pasting with middle mouse
> button.
It's a well-known limitation: xterm selects text which
Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
Severity: important
xterm mangles tabs to spaces when copying/pasting with middle mouse
button.
This can be easily reproduced by doing 'diff -u old_file new_file', then
selecting the output and pasting into 'vim'. The tabs from the output
have been convert
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