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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: copy-paste troubles with the first line of a less
- From: Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:34:42 +0200
- Message-id: <20041013143442.GA14245@via.ecp.fr>
Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
Severity: normal
Hi,
It's been some months now that I repeatedly get a strange problem with
a less in xterm: if I select the first line of the xterm window, being
the first line of the less dump too, I am pasting some sort of buffered
data too, coming from previous lines of output.
Say I have done a "grep -r foo bar | less", and copy-paste the first
line of the xterm ("bar/xyz.c: ..."), I get what I've selected plus
some preprended text ("blahblahbar/xyz.c: ..."). This happens when I
select one or multiple lines or one or multiple words including the
upper left word in the less in xterm. It DOESN'T happen when I select
character-wise (single-clicking instead of double- or triple-clicking).
I can't reproduce deterministically but once I get it, it always happen
with the same display. Restarting the less usually clears things up.
I think I already got the problem with vim a while ago, but I'm not
copy-pasting so much from vim, either to it.
I believe it's a but in the copy-paste word selection of xterm wich
doesn't check if the characters selected are displayed and goes out of
bound, but I can believe it is caused by improper terminal handling by
less.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X pixmap library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client data
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Regards,
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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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