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
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