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- From: mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us (Everett M. Greene)
- Subject: Re: Clipboard bug?
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- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 19:47:44 GMT
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- In article <J2W-x*4yf@yaps.rhein.de> arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig) writes:
- > In article <19960126.7D93EF8.88BE@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us>, Everett M. Greene writes:
- >
- > > What is the problem with the clipboard/memacs/shell combination which causes
- > > extraneous tabs and blanks to be prepended to lines when cutting from a shell
- > > window and pasting into a text file using memacs?
- > Using the clipboard with MEmacs at all comes as a surprise to me -
- > That Amiga-V works within MEmacs is not documented in the manual.
-
- Why should it be documented?
-
- > Anyway, I suppose your problem occurs when the line in which the
- > cursor is when you press Amiga-V is indented. This is because LFs
- > in the pasted text are apparently handled as if the Enter key on
- > the numeric keypad was pressed: Indentation is automatically main-
- > tained for the next line.
-
- Does the same thing when pasting into an empty file. Single lines
- (or fractions thereof) work correctly. Two or three lines are
- usually OK. Gets progressively worse with more lines.
-
- > The workaround is left as an exercise. :)
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- Everett M. Greene (The Mojave Greene, crotalus scutulatus scutulatus)
- Ridgecrest, Ca. 93555 Path: mojaveg@ridgecrest.ca.us
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