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Bug#259828: tabs mangled to spaces when copying from xterm



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 not use it, it took 10 seconds to start.
> 
> I guess you have a fast machine.  I just timed konsole's startup on my
> 2.66GHz box, and it took 22 seconds to get the window on the screen.
> 

No, actually, it's much slower than that, it probably took more like a
minute to come up.  I just said 10 seconds because I could not believe
it had really taken that long, and figured I must not have been paying
attention.  Wow, has KDE gotten bloated.

> > 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
> > hacked a terminal program so I can't really say.
> 
> It's more complicated than that.  xterm stores tabs expanded, and uses
> that in repainting (iirc, essentially the proposed patch set a bit at
> the beginning of the tab, so "all" that was left was to make the selection
> mechanism work).

Ah, ok.  Well, someone will fix this eventually.  Maybe I will make a
feature request for gnome terminal.  Thanks for the info.

Lee





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