On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 20:54 -0600, Chris wrote: > On 4/13/07, Paul Seamons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Pasting into emacs in a terminal is awful (GUI is just fine), partly > > because > > of the same indent issue, but worse is that the pasted characters come in > > as > > keystrokes which can sometimes cause the bell to sound or an error to > > occur > > which causes the paste to stop - or even better to jump to another > > location > > and continue pasting there. > > > I've been pasting into emacsen graphical windows and terminal windows for > years (decades?) and never encountered such objectionable behaviors. Am I > using a different terminal program than you (plain vanilla xterm), or have I > just been lucky? Also, what kind of windows are you pasting _from_?
You've been lucky. A standard terminal indeed does all of the things he said it does. If the auto-indent is turned on, then you will get a bunch of indented lines, because the paste is coming in as keystrokes. > > Chris > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
