On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Gary Mills <mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote: > I noticed this change with respect to Solaris 10 in both Openindiana > 148 and Solaris 11 Express: when I cut text in one gnome-terminal > window and paste it into another, tabs are no longer expanded to > spaces. I suppose this is better behavior because you generally want > to retain the tabs. However, it's a problem for me when I'm pasting > into an emacs editor session within that terminal window. In that > case, emacs treats the tabs as an indentation command, the same as if > I had typed them by hand. The amount of indentation increases with > each successive tab. > > The only solution I've found so far is to type: > > M-x global-set-key<RET> <TAB> self-insert-command > > before I paste in the text. Are there any better solutions? I know > that emacs in its own window doesn't have this problem, but there are > times I need to run it in tty mode. >
This is just a specific case of the more general problem of pasting into an application that is not aware of the X selection/clipboard and expects interactive input. Vim has :set paste for this - the Emacs equivalent may be M-x fundamental-mode (or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/986592/any-emacs-command-like-paste-mode-in-vim ). You'd be better off using an editor with X support. -Albert _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss