What is the use case?
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019, 07:40 Leon Winter, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > test setup: > rxvt -geometry 80x26 -e tmux new-session \ > 'printf "\033[31m\033[44mE\033[7m\033[39m\033[49m\ > %8s|%16s|%7s|%5s|%21s|%35s" a b c d e f; read' > > then output the buffer with: > tmux capture-pane -p -e > > As one can see the output of capture-pane does not correspond with the > visual > display inside tmux: The end of the first line, which is > background-inverted > whitespace as stripped. > > The man page states > " -J joins wrapped lines and preserves trailing spaces at each line's > end." > and infact when we use -J the trailing whitespace will be kept inplace, > unfortunately then however like the option is named lines will be joined > together so the captured output again does not correspond visually to the > content of the buffer. This behaviour is therefore intended but in our > case very > unfortunate. > > All of this is happening because the escape sequences with its background > setting gave meaning to the normally useless whitespace. If we chose to > output > escape sequences with -e we might stop stripping whitespaces. Or we > introduce a > new option that prevents stripping without joining lines. For the latter I > added > a patch (which is trivial). > > Regards, > Leon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tmux-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/20190801064054.GB15763%40bfw-online.de > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/CAEdLfcHtLGS%2BwPpy0Vy_VdHPWgyQfaYf-kmJnZSE4%2B9U1meUkw%40mail.gmail.com.
