2009/9/14 Nicholas Clark <[email protected]>: > 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. > > But at least it looks pretty. I'm sure that they have their priorities right.
Gnome C&P is definiely buggy. I regularly see artifacts at the end of pasted strings from certain apps, although I hadnt noticed that the terminal was in any way particularly hateful in this regard, although Evolution /is/. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
