[BRLTTY] Preserving presentation when copying to the clipboard

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/03/30 at 21:36 +0200]

>Hello,
>
>Dave Mielke (2025/03/30 12:53 -0400):
>> [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.
>
>I just tried this, in a virtual ocnsole.
>
>Assume the following program:
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>
>int main()
>{
>  prinf("Short line\n");
>  prinf("A looooooooooonger line\n");
>  printf("OK\n");
>  return 0.
>}
>
>Imagine I would like to duplicate the block consisting of the three
>printf lines. First, I CLIP_NEW on the 'p' of the first printf. Then, I
>COPY_RECT on the semicolon that terminates, the third line. 

It's a rectangular cut. If you want all of the longer lines then you need to CLIP_RECT far enough to the right to pick up the ends of the longer lines. That shouldn't be an issue, though, as trailing blanks are trimmed.

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