Bug#259828: tabs mangled to spaces when copying from xterm
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 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.
> >
> > Meh... don't have the bandwidth right now. Gnome terminal does the same
> > thing, so I would imagine the fix is non-trivial. I will just have to
> > go back to using mutt for email.
>
> I have an alpha-quality patch from someone for this in my backlog
> (all I have to do is the other 90% of the work)
>
> but see the other stuff on Debian's bug-reporting system...
Hmm, interesting, so it is fixable. I wonder if any other terminals do
this already. It would definitely be a nice usability enhancement.
Thanks again,
Lee
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