On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:08:58PM +1000, John Clarke wrote: > I don't think it's anything to do with vim. When the text is copied > from the xterm, tabs are converted to spaces. So by the time vim gets > it, there are no tabs in the text.
Nod. You'd think this would be fixable, but I guess there aren't any tabs by the time it gets displayed on the terminal. Otherwise you'd have vim and your terminal fighting over the meaning of tab. The other perennial irritation with copying and pasting from terminals is that special chars (^h,^l,^m) also get copied in the expanded asciified form, and line-wraps get converted to two lines. (I think this last one is fixable with some sort of xterm option.) The only real solution is to not use editors within terminals. Does gvim do the right thing? Regards, Matt PS. Never mind the fact that even now x drag and drop, copy and paste doesn't work reliably between various programs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
