From konsole-devel  Tue Dec 25 14:24:55 2001
From: David Flynn <dav () chess ! plus ! com>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 14:24:55 +0000
To: konsole-devel
Subject: [Konsole-devel] Bug#32723: Cut and paste with space at the end of wrapping line splits line in two
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On Sunday 23 December 2001 6:59 pm, you wrote:
> How shall the terminal know which lines are wrapped and which not?
> Try the same within xterm and copying will break after every line.
>
> Konsole and gnome-terminal try to help you by glueing lines when the
> last character is not a space. Of course this doesn't work always.
>
> The only alternative I know to be possible would be the one of xterm.

 Either there was a \n at the end of the line, or there wasn't, the terminal 
needs to keep this info. If there wasn't then it's one line, if there was 
then it's two.

 The problem is if I'm doing any code development with vi and it breaks my 
lines up just because there is space at the end of them, every time I cut and 
paste code it means I have to check all wrapping lines. If I don't bugs which 
are impossible to see by viewing the code creep in.

  Also when I try to cut and paste stuff on multi-user servers that are 
terminal based it means that the lines get split into several lines which 
means some of the info might be sent to the wrong place (all sorts of 
miscommunication problems occur) as well as being very hard to cut and paste 
text into a command.

  It would be extremely useful if this could be fixed.

							David
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