On 02.02.2009, at 11:05, xerces8 wrote:
I noticed that when copying text from a the Cygwin Bash window and
then pasting it somewhere (like WordPad), tabulator characters are
converted to spaces.
The same happens with RXVT too.
Details:
- print the content of some text file that has tabs (like a C
program source) : cat foo.c
- select and copy the text with the mouse
- paste (ctrl-V) into WordPad
The text in Wordpad has no more tabs.
Is there a way around this ?
copy an paste from window to window takes what's printed, not what
you have written.
So, if the terminal prints spaces to represent the tabs, as a
terminal usually does, you CAN only copy spaces.
Let me add my 2 cents worth. If you have the "newform" command, the
following magic will work:
$ newform -i-8 -o0 input_file >output_file
I have newform but i'm not sure where i got it since I was a long-time
AT&T Unix user. I also didn't find a man page. It's a very handy tool.
Translations:
-i-8 = input tabs assumed to be at every 8 columns
-o0 = output has tabs at 0 (no tabs)
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