GNU screen breaks pastableTabs

[Adam Spiers]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:39:53PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> > However it appears that neither are related to urxvt.  Having said
> > that, it might be worth adding a caveat to the documentation for
> > pastableTabs warning that usage of GNU screen may break the behaviour.
> 
> There is a fundamental misconception here - pastable tabs work just fine,
> even with gnu screen. The problem is that there are not abs in the frist
> place in that case, so no behaviour breaks.

I'm aware that there is nothing broken with urxvt, but I'm thinking on
behalf of the end user here rather than attempting an exercise in
finger-pointing.  Imagine someone else goes through what I went
through:

  - they switch to urxvt
  - they find the docs about pastableTabs
  - they think "cool! I'll use that"
  - ... but they're using GNU screen, so it doesn't work as expected.

Much better to include a caveat in the docs about pastableTabs than to
have them waste a few hours rediscovering what I did, i.e. that
there's an issue with GNU screen which prevents it working.  Otherwise
you might get more posts on this list claiming that pastableTabs is
broken when it actually isn't.