Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mintaka!think.com!spool2.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!ascwide!ascgw!fgw2!fgw!pfrad!ace!melby From: melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: xterm cut and paste Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 22:02:44 GMT References: <9101290819.AA00299@fuji.jpntok.cdc.com> Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 1, FUJITSU LTD. Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: daffy In-reply-to: egreshko@fuji.jpntok.cdc.COM's message of 29 Jan 91 17:19:18 JST >When using cut and paste in an xterm window running vi the >tabs in the pasted text are not preserved. Is this considered >normal behavior? Unfortunately, yes. Both the STRING and COMPOUND_TEXT targets allow for the presence of tab characters, but nobody seems to have gotten around to patching xterm/kterm up to transfer tabs intact.... ----- John B. Melby Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@uunet