[BRLTTY] Preserving presentation when copying to the clipboard

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/03/30 at 15:33 +0200]

>We believe that, currently, it is not really possible to preserve the
>presentation of, say, a block of code when it gets copied to the
>clipboard.

I haven't had a problem with this. You need to do a rectangular copy. Also, you need to ensure that autoindentaton is turned off in the editor.

>If the copy is done in a linear way then the end of lines are removed

Yes.

>whereas, if rectangular copy is used one gets a geometric rectangle,
>which may include spaces one does not really care about.

Which spaces. I believe (will have to refresh my memory, though) that trailing blanks are removed.

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