Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!guido
From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm copy buffer feature
Message-ID: <286@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 22 Apr 88 23:42:20 GMT
References: <8804212223.AA11069@s3snorkel> <880422090519.6.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: The Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Amoebae
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>When using the copy buffers in an xterm window, if I select--with the left 
>button--some text paste it into another window, I get an interesting staircase
>effect.

You probably pasted indented text in VI with autoindent mode on.