On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:53:46 -0700
Gautam Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:18:41AM +0100, Nick Warne wrote:
> 
> > I still don't really understand why this was ever in the code, as
> > the main code knows about the spaces, but for some reason they are
> > deemed to be stripped off (for no apparent reason) when mouse
> > highlight copying.
> 
> Some curses programs fill the line with trailing spaces to erase text.
> In that case it's quite useful to strip the trailing spaces, so I
> quite like it as it is!

OK, I can understand that, but what has that to do with selecting text
with mouse selection?  If you select the text from a curses program,
then there will be no trailing spaces to be stripped off anyway under
that logic?

> Thankfully the rxvt authors made it an option in src/feature.h,

Yes.  So perhaps a toggle on/off config option is the way to go here.

> GI

Nick
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