On 09/10/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * When selecting wrapped text with the mouse, the 'wrapping > characters' are also copied. It would be cool if they could be made to > magically disapear, as Beni suggested might be possible. Note that > other programs, like emacs, don't do this, which implies it's > non-trivial. > That's not what I meant. If you want to display the wrapping-indicator ellipsis, there is no way to omit from copy-and-paste. One of the motivations given for displaying the wrapping indicator chars was to mark the place where the newline has to be removed after copy-and -paste. What I meant was that if you don't show any wrapping chars and do the wrapping by printing over the end of the line (instead of moving the cursor), the new-line should be automagically omitted by the terminal. Of course, this only helps if you also give up the spaces that align to the prompt.
If you want to go real fancy, you might try to take control over the mouse and simlate cut-and-paste by highlighting the dragged region yourself -- and copying the right text to the X buffer by yourself. For example, nano can do that in recent versions (but it doesn't undestand dragging, you need two clicks). Anyway, I really don't think you want to mess with that. But it does point at a neat solution(?): stop caring about properly copying with the terminal, since one can always copy (even to the X clipboard) with a fish editing command! C-a C-k C-y does that; perhaps we want an easier key for copying to clipboard. > * When resizing a terminal with wrapped commands, the terminal becomes > full of giberish. This seems nearly impossible to avoid, since at > least on some terminals, the cursor movement commands become > unreliable when dealing with text that has been automatically wrapped > by the terminal as a result of resizing. Even worse moving the cursor > upwards seems to sometimes move text upwards as well, as if the > terminal was somehow trying to 'unwrap' the text as a result of the > cursor movement. I'm not sure this is solveable, curses-based programs > simply cop out by repainting the entire screen. Fish doesn't have that > luxury, since we want to preserve the output of previous commands. > Perhaps fish could repaint the line(s) with the command only. I saw programs that do that quite reliably but I don't remember which. Yep, terminals are messy :-(... -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who can only read email on weekends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
