GNU screen breaks pastableTabs

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:20:59PM +0000, Adam Spiers <rxvt-unicode at adamspiers.org> wrote:
> Can anyone else reproduce this?  If I do
> 
>   echo "    blah blah\n\tblah blah"
> 
> with pastableTabs enabled (the default), during selection the tab is
> correctly treated as an atomic unit.  However if I do the same from
> within a GNU screen session, it is treated as a number of spaces.
> What's going on there?

gnu screen replaces the tabs by spaces or other cursor movement.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:29:51PM +0000, Adam Spiers <rxvt-unicode at adamspiers.org> wrote:
> Upon further inspection, the problem is even worse.  GNU screen also
> breaks selections spanning lines - it causes urxvt to treat the end of
> a line as if it was fully padded with spaces.  This could actually be
> a show-stopper for me using urxvt, since I rely heavily on GNU screen :-(
> Ideas much appreciated!

Well, what alternatives do you have to urxvt :) gnu screen breaks lines
about the same way with any other terminal as well. It is gnu screen that
breaks the logical lines, not urxvt.

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