Re: Problems with Copy&Paste: backticks are missing, whitespace is wrong

[Martin Klaiber <martinkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Martin Klaiber <martinkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Also, when I want to type a backtick in jed directly, I have to type
>> it twice before it appears. Perhaps jed eats up the first appearance
>> of it? Anyway, copying ```` into jed becomes `` here.

> The backtic key is bound to the "quoted_insert" function.

Ok, thanks, it works now.

>> Another problem with C&P: if there is some whitespace at the beginning
>> of a line, it seems to be added to the beginning of the next line.
>> Example:

> The "trick" to paste into jed running in xterm is to use the "paste"
> function.  Simply issue the "paste" command at either the M-x or
> S-Lang> prompt and the press the middle mouse button.  (This operation
> requires jed-0.99-17).

I see.  Well, it also works with 0.99-15 when I load paste_mode before
pasting the text.

> The reason for this is that xterm sends paste-data to the application
> running in the window via the applications standard input stream
> (keyboard).  As a result, jed does not know if the characters it is
> reading were typed in directly, or are coming from some other source.

Ok, but why is only whitespace affected, and only whitespace at the
beginning of a line?  Anyway, paste_mode does it right now.

Martin

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