On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 01:26:23PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > There seems to be a problem with gnome terminal, the clipboard and > wrapping. Say I have a very long line in a script, long enough to wrap > in the terminal when it is displayed with less. Say I want to execute > just that line, however long it is. > > What I am accustomed to doing is grabbing the text, as is, into the > clipboard, going to another gnome terminal, pasting it in, and > executing it. The line is handled correctly, i.e. the wrap in the > display is not preserved. This is the way X has done it as long as I > can recall. > > What I see on F7 is that the line is broken into two (or more) lines > at the wrap point(s). Thus the line is broken and will not execute (or > executes incorrectly, which is worse). This is the way Windows' > command.com and cmd.exe do it. > > How do I get back the proper, X, handling? See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213753 Jakub
