Re: selecting : white spaces at then end of body lines
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 04:38:06PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
>
> > > BTW - There's no real need to CC me. I'm subscribed to the list ;-P
> >
> > I forget this about once a week...
>
> Really? I thought it'd be a little harder for anybody here to forget said
> fact (except the multitude that probably procmail(8)s me to /dev/null(4),
> of course) ... I guess I need to post a tad more often, eh? ;-P
mutt-dev/mutt-users appears to be the only one that I reply to which sets
up the headers to confuse pine (ymmv). I use pine on one of my ISP's,
mutt on another (and mutt on my local boxes). Be patient...
> > > Oh, so the assumption is that the Linux console is optimized for back
> > > color erase, I take it?
> >
> > yes. And screen was originally written to model a DEC terminal that
> > didn't do that. The bce option is only a couple of years old.
>
> Oh, so that'd explain why the xterm mouse screws up its copy/paste.
I modified xterm a while back to show the selected text - it used to
simply highlight the whole line. So it's easy to be aware of what's
going on. All of the programs that I might paste into can easily
trim trailing blanks, so it's more of an faq than anything else.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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