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From: becker@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Tim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm copy buffer feature
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Date: 22 Apr 88 12:44:53 GMT
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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 stairca
   se
   effect.  The top six lines are what it looked like.  It is a fragment from t
   he
   man page for xterm.  the bottom six lines is what it looked like when I copi
   ed
   it into a vi buffer.  The staircase effect is due to extra tabs being insert
   ed
   when it is pasted.

I believe you have autoindent turned on in vi.  True?  (So, vi will do an
autoindent, then you'll paste in another 8 spaces plus text.... and so on
for the next line).

Tim Becker.
becker@cs.rochester.edu