Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:24:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cut-N-Paste oddity with XFree86/Xterm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960419141954.8109A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com>
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On other operating systems I've used (namely Ultrix, OSF/1 and Solaris) when cutting and pasting between xterm windows (something I do quite often) they would usually preserve the white space correctly. However, my most recent workstation is in FreeBSD, and I've since noticed that for some unknown reason random bits of space are ADDED to the end of lines periodically. Specifically if the line happens to be short. This is rather disasterous as I do a bit of pasting of blocks of text terminated with a period, 9.9 times out of 10 I will pull from an xterm window (in nvi) where the line is simply "." (or in regexp-ese "^\.$"), yet when it is pasted into the other window it is received as "^\. $". Is there any reason for this!? The behavior is most definitely centralized somewhere in the x-term/XF86 implementation of the cut-n-paste buffer, is it something that can be fixed? It is rather frustrating to have to manually enter the period to make sure that it is JUST a period, not a period, space and then a CRLF... -Brandon Gillespie-
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