Bug#259828: tabs mangled to spaces when copying from xterm - ideas on semantics

2004-08-12 Thread pcg
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:

Bug#259828: tabs mangled to spaces when copying from xterm - ideas on semantics

2004-08-12 Thread pcg
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