[BRLTTY] Cut & paste

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 09:12:48 -0500, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/02/05 at 13:44 +0000]
> 
> >I wonder: shouldn't linear cut & paste always behave like this while
> >rectangular shouldn't?
> 
> How do other cut-and-paste facilities like gpm and X do it?

They usually don't support rectangular cut & paste.

However, there is a common heuristic about end of line: if the last
character is a blank, then put a newline. Else, assume that it's a
continued line.

> What should be done with leading blanks when lines are wrapped the way vim 
> does, i.e. after the line number?

Which line number?  By default vim doesn't show any line number.

> What should be done with trailing blanks when, say, lines are wrapped on word 
> boundaries?

I'd say it should be conservative and keep the blanks, which often don't
hurt, and sometimes are important.

Samuel