On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:26:33PM -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
> 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.
> <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).
How else is it going to do it, without having knowledge of whatever
you're running in the terminal, which it can't - obviously - have?
But you know, when I splatter a zillion characters at a filehandle, I
expect them to be read and dealt with in the right order. God knows
what Gnome is doing to break that.
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to build an operating system without adult supervision."
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