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Re: Copy converts tabs to spaces ?


Hi,

copy an paste from window to window takes what's printed,
not what you have written.

So, if the terminal prints spaces to represent the tabs,
as a terminal usualy does, you CAN only copy spaces.

All else is an exception, U*X ist NOT wysiwyg!

Regards,

Ralf

On 02.02.2009, at 11:05, xerces8 wrote:

Hi!

I noticed that when copying text from a the Cygwin Bash window and then pasting it somewhere (like
WordPad), tabulator characters are converted to spaces.


The same happens with RXVT too.

Details:
- print the content of some text file that has tabs (like a C program source) : cat foo.c
- select and copy the text with the mouse
- paste (ctrl-V) into WordPad


The text in Wordpad has no more tabs.

Is there a way around this ?

Regards,
David



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