Ken Moffat wrote: > I know it tends to replace tabs with spaces, which makes it a bit of > a pain when fixing up patches by hand, but basic copy and paste work.
There should never be tabs in patches. People use different interpretations of a tab. Even tabs in Makefiles suck, even though they are required. > I've got the page for the gimp open. Highlight the first batch of > instructions by holding down the left mouse button and drawing it > over the text, then paste with the middle button. I get: > > patch -Np1 -i ../gimp-2.6.11-security_fixes-1.patch && > patch -Np1 -i ../gimp-2.6.11-libpng_fixes-1.patch && > ./configure --prefix=/usr \ > --sysconfdir=/etc && > make > > Works for me in fluxbox (for the short time I use that) and icewm > (1.3). And for me from a browser (or a terminal, or mail reader, etc) to any terminal (or editor, etc). That's the window manager doing that, not the terminal emulator. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
