Re: selecting : white spaces at then end of body lines
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, benoit wrote:
> Message de David Yitzchak Cohen, le samedi 27 décembre :
> > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 04:29:57PM +0100, benoit wrote:
> > > each time i want to copy and paste a text from mutt, i have to pipe the
> > > mail to less because the lines in the pager body end with white spaces.
> > >
> > > why not \n ? is it possible to change this ?
> >
> > Can you provide a test message? I tried using copy/paste from your
> > message, and lines ended correctly. What are you using to copy/paste,
> > anyway? I'm using GNU Screen 3.9.15, FWIW.
>
>
> you're right, it's not a mutt-related problem.
> for each mail opened in the pager, the body lines are padded with white
> spaces, when using screen (4.00.01 (FAU) 18-Sep-03)
>
> without screen, it's fine. with screen, i can still pipe the mail to
> less : there's no spaces.
It's because of the way xterm (and similar programs) store the text which
can be selected. If you setup screen to use the back-color-erase (bce)
configuration, the problem goes away.
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