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



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
> > > 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.

no problem (I may, on review of the patch I have, decide it's simpler to
finish off than I would be thinking late on a Friday...)

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Thomas E. Dickey
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