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



On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:17:48AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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...

Um, oh, I see ... you use that "barebone" MUA (according to the guys at
PC Magazine - can't blame me) from www.washington.edu ;-P

> > > > 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.

/me knows very little about xterms ... running a real tty seems to make
far more sense than firing up X just to get a window emulating a tty. . .

 - Dave

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