We're not adding an option for every obscure little behaviour change, we would quickly be coming down with options and there are already far too many. Options are not free, they are a maintenance burden and a steeper learning curve for new users.
So, we pick one behaviour. For vi mode, generally the policy is to follow vi. Why does it make sense for vi to copy newlines and not for tmux? Isn't it a surprise for vi users if it doesn't? This is tricky for me because I don't care about vi mode, but the person who sent this change wanted it and yours is the only comment on it in 7 months, so I'm not inclined to revert it immediately. Perhaps some other vi users will weigh in. On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 09:09:40PM +0100, Thomas Egerer wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > > On 01/18/2015 09:16 AM, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > Hi > > > > There is no way we are adding an option for this, sorry. > Any explaination why? 'Sorry' really does not help me here. > The newly introduced behavior makes the otherwise great tool > less usable for the idea of being completely compatible with > what you cannot be completely compatible with. I don't > understand why you're ruling out to add the patch (because > you didn't tell it). It would not harm anyone, and the > default setting wouldn't change the default behavior of > tmux at all. It would however free people (and it's not > just me, trust me), from the burdon of rebasing the patch > again and again on top of each new tmux release. > > > Does the current behaviour match vi(1)? > This is like comparing pears and apples. vi(1) is an editor > while tmux is a terminal multiplexer with the option of > copying text to buffers. It makes great sense to copy newlines > within a block of selected text. It does not make sense to > copy a newline at the end of a line when copying only a > *single* line or at the end of a selection (even if that > is what vi does). > > Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
