On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:20:59PM +0000, Adam Spiers <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone else reproduce this? If I do > > echo " blah blah\n\tblah blah" > > with pastableTabs enabled (the default), during selection the tab is > correctly treated as an atomic unit. However if I do the same from > within a GNU screen session, it is treated as a number of spaces. > What's going on there?
gnu screen replaces the tabs by spaces or other cursor movement. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:29:51PM +0000, Adam Spiers <[email protected]> wrote: > Upon further inspection, the problem is even worse. GNU screen also > breaks selections spanning lines - it causes urxvt to treat the end of > a line as if it was fully padded with spaces. This could actually be > a show-stopper for me using urxvt, since I rely heavily on GNU screen :-( > Ideas much appreciated! Well, what alternatives do you have to urxvt :) gnu screen breaks lines about the same way with any other terminal as well. It is gnu screen that breaks the logical lines, not urxvt. -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [email protected] -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
