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Re: backslash whitespace newline
On 2005-10-24 18:59:44 -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2005, at 5:52 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >But then, copy-paste would no longer always work since spaces are
> >sometimes added at the end of some lines (depending on the terminal
> >and the context).
>
> Please name such systems. We can then know to not use them, and can
> document in the manual they are broken if we wish.
The problem occurs very often with iTerm under Mac OS X.
Also, this sometimes happen with *any* terminal when the application
has added spaces for a redraw. Emacs and Mutt at least are affected
by this problem (even when one uses bce). Concerning Mutt, I know
that ncurses sometimes clears the end of a line with spaces instead
of the escape sequence because this is more efficient when there are
only a few characters left.
Well, some terminals can be configured to strip the trailing spaces,
but then, one gets the inverse problem, i.e. lines with "\[LF]"
instead of "\[whitespace][LF]".
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