On Mon, 12 May 2008 10:54:46 +0100
Nick Warne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 01:15:41 -0700
> Gautam Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:54:34PM +1000, Eduard Westra wrote:
> >
> > > When I select a text and the last character is a " " (i.e. a
> > > space) it is not copied to the clipboard. When a printable
> > > character is behind it, then it's copied to the clipboard, but if
> > > a newline follows, the space is not copied, newline is! This is
> > > very annoying if one needs an *exact* copy of the selected text
> > > (which is something I use all the time!).
> >
> > Hmm. I don't think this is easily fixable. From the way the data is
> > stored, we have no way of differentiating between the output of the
> > following two commands
> >
> > echo "a "
> > echo "a"
> >
> > This will take a bit of work to fix, and we welcome patches :).
>
> Ummm. Interesting. I get this issue too, and found it slightly
> annoying.
>
> Just having a look, in src/screen.c are several define calls in line
> 5029:
>
> void
> rxvt_selection_make( ...
>
> #ifdef DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES
> STRIP_TRAILING_SPACE(str, new_selection_text);
> #endif
>
> which expand earlier in this file (line 144) to:
>
> #ifdef DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES
> # define STRIP_TRAILING_SPACE(str, fence) \
> while (str > fence && ' ' == str[-1]) \
> str --;
> #endif
>
> Sooo, looking, in src/feature.h line 526 is (which I have changed
> here!!)
>
>
> /* Strip trailing spaces from selection */
> /* define DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES */
> #undef DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES
>
> ...and this now appears to work OK for me :-) I haven't a clue if
> it's the right thing to do, but it only appears to affect the
> 'selection' at the time.
>
> find . -name \* -exec grep -Hn "DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES" {} \;
> ./src/feature.h:526:/* define DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES */
> ./src/feature.h:527:#undef DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES
> ./src/screen.c:144:#ifdef DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES
> ./src/screen.c:5122:#ifdef DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES
> ./src/screen.c:5171:#ifdef DONT_SELECT_TRAILING_SPACES
>
> Nick
So, with no replies, I guess what I done is wrong then? Works OK for
me (tm).
Nick
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