On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 01:13:47PM -0700, Deb wrote: > I forgot to mention that I'm using xterm-166, with terminfo > xterm-color, on Solaris, Sparc. Not sure the xfree86 is > appropriate for this platform?
But xterm-color usually says that the terminal doesn't implement back color erase (bce). In that case, most full-screen applications will write explicit blanks, which xterm's select/paste will preserve. > I suspect what Thomas Dickey stated is closest to the truth, > that the spaces are explicit writes to those positions. And > a test with both the /usr/openwin/bin/xterm and xterm-166 > both show this to be the case - but ONLY when using mutt. It > doesn't seem related to the window interface at all, but > instead to how mutt is drawing the picture. > > I would consider this a bug. ( sure - but not in mutt or xterm ;-) > > deb > > > > > * Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-05 13:56:52 -0400]: > > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 07:40:17PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:18:01 -0700, Deb wrote: > > > > When I copy multiple lines of text from a message I'm reading in mutt, > > > > then paste that text into a different window, all the lines are post-appended > > > > with space padding and a NL is on the end of the line at the window edge. > > > > > > This is a FAQ. You should use a terminal that have bce support > > > (like the Xfree86 xterm) and terminfo data that announce bce. > > > If you use ncurses 5.2 terminfos, TERM=xterm-xfree86 and > > > TERM=xterm-vt220 should be OK for the Xfree86 xterm. > > > > > > BTW, this doesn't solve all the problems. I sometimes notice trailing > > > spaces in headers. > > > > There's more than one possibility here (including bugs, of course). For > > instance, the header may have been written on top of some existing blanks, and > > the optimization takes that into account. For xterm, the spaces that are > > copied via mouse-selection are from explicit writes to those positions since > > the last clearing operation, e.g., erase-display, erase-line. > > > > -- > > Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://invisible-island.net > > ftp://invisible-island.net > > -- > "If it dies, it's biology. If it blows up, it's chemistry, > and if it doesn't work, it's physics." > -- University bathroom graffito > ��� > ~ -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
