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From: lichtin@olsen.UUCP (Martin Lichtin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm behaviour
Keywords: xterm shelltool
Message-ID: <191@honold.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 90 01:40:06 GMT
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Reply-To: lichtin@honold.UUCP (Martin Lichtin)
Organization: Olsen & Associates, Zurich, Switzerland
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I notice that my question about <"wipe" in xterm> has been misunderstood.

My problem is the "copy-and-paste" mechanism of xterm. 

While pressing down the left mouse button, you can select a piece of text.
Now, assume that you've selected three lines inside xterm. Actually,
this selection is a very long "one-line" command just entered by you.
When you press the middle button to "paste" your selection in another xterm
or vi, it will insert three lines and NOT one very long line. To say it
with other words: xterm does not know when you've typed in a <CR>. It simply
puts a EOL after each "visual" line-break, not knowing when it has done
a wraparound with your input.

Another minor bug is, that if there are blanks at the end of your 
text selection, xterm does not copy these blanks into the selection buffer,
and consequently, will not paste it into any application.

Has anybody else noticed this logically wrong behaviour of xterm?
I appreciate any comments or solutions.
Thank you.