It was thus said that the Great Nicholas Clark once stated:
> Copy a block of text.
> Paste it back in.
>
> This is *not* something that Gnome Terminal can do reliably.
>
> Sometimes it decides that it will paste carriage returns first time, but
> paste it again (without changing the selection) and it pastes line feeds.
>
> But more fun is, that sometimes it *can't even paste reliably*. It misses
> out odd characters from the middle of a selection.
<Boggle> But ... but ... but ... I mean, sure, X Windows cut-n-paste is
baroque [1] but not completely brain dead---you *get* the entire selection
in one shot [2]. You have to have some pretty bad code to change or even
*drop* characters. What? Does Gnome Terminal feed the selection into the
pseudo-tty file handle? (the more I think about it, the more likely that
sounds).
Arg.
Anyway, I still use xterm. Sure, I hate it, but I've been hating it since
1991. I don't need new hates in my life.
-spc (Who really hates large undocumented PHP frameworks but that's
shooting fish in a barrel ... )
[1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
[2] Hmmm ... maybe not for "really large" selections, but my copy of the
Xlib Programming Manual doesn't cover that issue.
