Making the copy and pasting consistent.
The copying and pasting in the terminald and GUI world is flawed. Due to the discussion on the mailinglist it seems that sending '\n' is what GUIs expect and '\r' what terminal applications want. St now implements that behaviour.
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@ -788,9 +788,18 @@ selcopy(void) {
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memcpy(ptr, p, size);
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memcpy(ptr, p, size);
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ptr += size;
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ptr += size;
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}
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}
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/* \n at the end of every selected line except for the last one */
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/*
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* Copy and pasting of line endings is inconsistent
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* in the inconsistent terminal and GUI world.
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* The best solution seems like to produce '\n' when
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* something is copied from st and convert '\n' to
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* '\r', when something to be pasted is received by
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* st.
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* FIXME: Fix the computer world.
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*/
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if(is_selected && y < sel.e.y)
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if(is_selected && y < sel.e.y)
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*ptr++ = '\r';
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*ptr++ = '\n';
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}
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}
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*ptr = 0;
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*ptr = 0;
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}
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}
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@ -801,7 +810,7 @@ void
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selnotify(XEvent *e) {
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selnotify(XEvent *e) {
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ulong nitems, ofs, rem;
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ulong nitems, ofs, rem;
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int format;
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int format;
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uchar *data;
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uchar *data, *last, *repl;
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Atom type;
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Atom type;
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ofs = 0;
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ofs = 0;
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@ -812,6 +821,24 @@ selnotify(XEvent *e) {
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fprintf(stderr, "Clipboard allocation failed\n");
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fprintf(stderr, "Clipboard allocation failed\n");
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return;
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return;
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}
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}
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/*
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* As seen in selcopy:
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* Line endings are inconsistent in the terminal and GUI world
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* copy and pasting. When receiving some selection data,
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* replace all '\n' with '\r'.
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* FIXME: Fix the computer world.
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*/
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repl = data;
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last = data + nitems * format / 8;
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while((repl = memchr(repl, '\n', last - repl))) {
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*repl++ = '\r';
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}
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last = data + nitems * format / 8;
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repl = data;
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ttywrite((const char *)data, nitems * format / 8);
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ttywrite((const char *)data, nitems * format / 8);
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XFree(data);
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XFree(data);
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/* number of 32-bit chunks returned */
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/* number of 32-bit chunks returned */
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