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Re: selecting : white spaces at then end of body lines



On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:06:09PM +0100, benoit wrote:
> Message de Thomas Dickey, le dimanche 28 décembre :
> > 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:

> > > 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.
> 
> 
> thanks a lot, problem solved. 
> 
> picked up from README.Debian, for further reference :
> 
> 
> Q: Why do I get #!$@#$@!% trailing spaces when I cut and paste from mutt
>    running within screen?
> Q: Why does the statusbar in my irc client extend to the end of the screen
>    in xterm but not in screen?
> 
> A: This has to do with handling of the bce terminal attribute, or lack
>    thereof by default in screen. You can enable bce on a per-user basis by
>    adding the following to your .screenrc:
> 
>    defbce on
>    term screen-bce

Okay, now this is really interesting: I just checked on my running
screens, and none of them have bce on.  Why don't I get the funky spaces
at the end of lines, then?

 - Dave

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