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bug#29357: Cut and paste problems on Linux on a text virtual console no
From: |
Dr. Michael L. Dowling |
Subject: |
bug#29357: Cut and paste problems on Linux on a text virtual console no longer works |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:36:24 +0200 |
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:46:40AM -0700, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> > There are several annoyances with this way of working - if you've got
> > side-by-side windows, you've really got to get rid of all but the
> > pertinent window before being able to mark text with the mouse; when you
> > yank text in with the middle button, linefeeds misbehave, giving
> > indentation where none is wanted. For all that, having GPM is better
> > than not having it.
>
> This is very useful information, thank you. If I understand you
> correctly, this is a limitation in GPM, and not in Emacs. Maybe some
> interested party could report this as a feature request to GPM.
>
> BTW, maybe someone could test and see if this works with some other
> program that also splits the display to see if it has the same problem.
If I can be of any further assistance I would be willing to try, but I'd
need somebody to suggest how.
> I suppose that means that this bug should be closed? Or is there
> anything more we should do?
I had come to the conclusion that I was one of the last die-hard
Linux/text-mode/command line users. Were that to be the case, it would
be unreasonable of me to expect people to work to fix it. But apparently
I'm not the last die-hard user. But then, why have others not also made
bug reports?
This is a very old bug report. Since nobody reacted to it, I concluded
that nobody was using text-mode. Then truecrypt stopped development, so
I adopted veracrypt instead. It worked fine, except in text mode it
yielded error messages from a graphics library. Since it nevertheless
worked, I did not make a bug report. I expected somebody would
eventually fix it, but nobody did, until a few weeks ago, years later.
But that reinforced my conclusion that text-mode was not being used.
If I can help in any way, please let me know. I personally have not
noticed any other strange behavious of GPM, but, with a pointer or two,
I could investigate this.
Cheers,
Mike
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Dr. Michael L. Dowling
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