Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.8-rc2] intel8x0.c to include CK804 audio support | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:43:23 +0300 |
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On Tuesday 27 July 2004 07:57, Paul Jackson wrote: > > For now the only fix for people using an X environment ... insert file > > ... > > Another fix is to copy from a non-brain damaged window, such as a gui > text editor window (nedit, for example). > > I'm guessing that the tabs are lost in the cut or copy operation, not in > the paste operation.
because 'cut' in a xterm cannot know that those eight spaces once were a tab. xterm is probably storing screen as a char+attr two-dimensional array. There are no tabs, only spaces.
> But file insertion is, in general, a sufficiently winning choice that I > think it's better just to get in the habit of always inserting patches > that way, at least on email clients that support it.
I do it all the time. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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