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Re: backslash whitespace newline
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:16:23PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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).
I invite you to talk to Thomas about that one; he may well agree. That
doesn't affect the general case.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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