[BRLTTY] Cut & paste

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/02/05 at 14:21 +0000]
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> With "set number", i.e. with numbers displayed, vim wraps so that the area 
> beneath the number is blank, i.e. all segments of the line start at the same 
> column.

OK, just tested that.

I think that when performing a linear cut, all blanks surrounding a line 
break should be collapsed into a single blank.  This would handle the 
numbered vim case just fine as well.  In the case where a long line is 
wrapped on screen but not on a blank character then the second portion 
of the line will still be preceded with a blank in the numbered mode, 
but turning that mode off prior performing the cut, or simply going back 
to delete the extra blank once the buffer has been pasted, should be an 
acceptable compromise for keeping the cut behavior generic enough for 
the common case.


Nicolas