On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:07:54PM +0200, pancake wrote: > i feel this annoying too, but someone told me this was an > intentional behaviour.
The problem is that tab characters means a movement of the cursor. so if you apply your patch and run something like: $ printf "a\tb" you will see in the screen: a b but if you try copy/paste it you will copy only the character a and b, getting: ab Solution of copying all the characters needs some work, because I agree it sucks when you copy this non existing leading paces. I think the solution should be a variable by line saying maximum column written in it. I think other terminal emulators do something like this. Of course actual solution converts all tabs into spaces, but fix this is reallt complex and I think all the emulator take this aproach. Sincerely, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero.
