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Making the copy and pasting consistent.

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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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Christoph Lohmann 2013-04-13 08:48:17 +02:00
parent ddd429ea24
commit 4018b2c507
1 changed files with 31 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -788,9 +788,18 @@ selcopy(void) {
memcpy(ptr, p, size);
ptr += size;
}
/* \n at the end of every selected line except for the last one */
/*
* Copy and pasting of line endings is inconsistent
* in the inconsistent terminal and GUI world.
* The best solution seems like to produce '\n' when
* something is copied from st and convert '\n' to
* '\r', when something to be pasted is received by
* st.
* FIXME: Fix the computer world.
*/
if(is_selected && y < sel.e.y)
*ptr++ = '\r';
*ptr++ = '\n';
}
*ptr = 0;
}
@ -801,7 +810,7 @@ void
selnotify(XEvent *e) {
ulong nitems, ofs, rem;
int format;
uchar *data;
uchar *data, *last, *repl;
Atom type;
ofs = 0;
@ -812,6 +821,24 @@ selnotify(XEvent *e) {
fprintf(stderr, "Clipboard allocation failed\n");
return;
}
/*
* As seen in selcopy:
* Line endings are inconsistent in the terminal and GUI world
* copy and pasting. When receiving some selection data,
* replace all '\n' with '\r'.
* FIXME: Fix the computer world.
*/
repl = data;
last = data + nitems * format / 8;
while((repl = memchr(repl, '\n', last - repl))) {
*repl++ = '\r';
}
last = data + nitems * format / 8;
repl = data;
ttywrite((const char *)data, nitems * format / 8);
XFree(data);
/* number of 32-bit chunks returned */