Re: Extra spaces
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:46:43AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> if it could - but I don't think it's doable (xterm simply doesn't know
> that there's more than one level of application writing to the display,
> and cannot guess what's done by the level past screen).
Well, what I meant was actually much simpler. Suppose you've got a
line that says "a b c d", and you highlight the b and the following
space. trimSelection will trim that space :-)
> If screen were modified, for instance, to do as vim does and ensure that
> wrapped lines are written so that xterm agrees they're wrapped - then a
> lot of the apparent problem would just go away.
Hmm. I really doubt this is possible, but I'll file it away for a
rainy day.
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