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From: eirik@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Eirik Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm copy buffer feature
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Date: 23 Apr 88 08:35:04 GMT
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In article <880422090519.6.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) writes:
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|    Date: Thu, 21 Apr 88 15:23:02 PDT
|    From: warner%s3snorkel@scubed.arpa (Ken Warner)
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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.
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|I cannot reproduce this, either on a Sun or an Apollo xterm/vi combination,
|using the text you indicated.

I may be missing something here, but the closest thing I've seen to a
staircase effect is pasting multiple indented lines into a vi window
with autoindent set.

Please excuse me if I missed the boat entirely; I didn't see the
original posting.

Perhaps there is a creative way to remap line-feeds in insert mode to
deal with auto-indent (assuming that most people use carriage return
for new lines, and that xterm sends line feeds for line boundaries).
If so, I haven't found it.  I'd guess something like '^M^[0i' would
do it, where the ^ notation means control characters.  Mostly what I
haven't found is a way to map line feeds into anything.  It'd be nice
if vi had a mode where CRs autoindented and LFs didn't; maybe it does
and I just don't know it.  Such behavior might be worth hacking into
vi, to deal with window copy buffers and autoindent.

OK, I'll be quiet now :-)