On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:23:26PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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.
Lol. Ever seen the complaints about whitespace-damaged patches on lkml ? And, as you say, Makefiles require them. > > > 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. The point is that it *does* work in rxvt-unicode. I'm willing to accept that the wm is responsible (I've never had real reason to consider *why* it worked). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
