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Re: backslash whitespace newline
On 2005-10-25 16:01:43 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:53:23PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> > Yeah, I knew about that one, cutting and pasting from any full screen
> > program running in a terminal emulator tends to be wrong. Tab
> > characters are usually the first causalities, along with long
> > lines. :-( I'd propose to encourage people submit bug reports
> > against xterm/emacs/terminfo/termcap/curses if they care much about
> > the issue. I think it might be possible to improve the situation alot.
>
> In fact, it really isn't (or at least it's defeated everyone who
> tried); I spent some time talking with the ncurses maintainer about
> this earlier in the month.
This can be improved a bit. The fact that ncurses clears the end of
a line with spaces instead of an escape sequence when there are a
few columns left is 100% ncurses fault, and easy to fix IMHO (just
remove the optimization).
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