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



On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 04:35:27PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:

> > > 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?
> 
> perhaps we're talking about two different methods for select/paste.
> I assumed he was using xterm and using a mouse.

really? oh, oops ;-)

> You appear to be
> talking about screen's support for select/paste.

of course

> screen knows what
> it thought it wrote to the screen - it doesn't have to send extra
> blanks.

Hmm ... I wonder what GPM would do.  I don't have a mouse on this computer
at all, though, so I can't exactly test it out. . .

 - Dave

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