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[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:53:23PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:39 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >Emacs in an xterm, from time to time.
> 
> 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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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