bug#6741: 24.0.50; ansi-term: spurious newlines (soft linebreaks becomes had linebreak)

[Noam Postavsky]

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Sébastien Gross <seb@chezwam.org> writes:

> I am currently using ansi-term as a terminal emulator. the problem is
> when lines are longer than the buffer column number a hard newline
> ('\n') is inserted.
> Thus when some text is copied (with using both the mouse or keyboard
> sequences) some spurious new line appear into the pasted text.
>
> For example in ansi-term type:
>
> echo "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do 
> eiusmod tempor in cididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim 
> veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea 
> commodo consequat."
>
> (this line is intentionally left long)
>
>
> If you try to copy/past  it (using the mouse selection and middle click)
> you might get something like (depending on term-window-width):
>
>
> echo "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiu
> smod tempor in cididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim 
> veniam, quis n
> ostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat."
>
> As you can see hard newline appear.
>
>
> Is there a way to fix this ?

Well, it's a bit late, but the answer is yes:

      (setq term-suppress-hard-newline t)