Bug 168368

Summary:	tab characters are not copyable with mouse
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Component:	copy-paste	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adaptee, darkbasic, eugene, greg.martyn, jefg, kbloom, matthew.levi12, philspam
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	copy tabs with mouse Patch to allow copy of tabs

Description Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 2008-08-04 22:40:02 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package
Compiler:          4.3.1 
OS:                Linux

Tabs in konsole are rendered as spaces and thus you can use mouse to copy and paste tab characters under X Windows.

Example:
echo -e "a\t\b"
try to copy result of that with mouse and then paste back to some editor. Spaces will be copied instead of tabs.

Comment 1 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 2008-08-04 22:43:14 UTC

Created attachment 26636 [details]
copy tabs with mouse

This patch is for KDE 3.5 and allows tab characters to be copied and pasted
using mouse under X window.

Additionaly tab when selected is copied as single character instead of multiple
characters.

Fix idea came from gnome-terminal:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353610

Comment 2 Kurt Hindenburg 2009-03-15 21:12:40 UTC

Created attachment 32149 [details]
Patch to allow copy of tabs

Here's the above patch for trunk.  It applies but doesn't actually work as expected.

Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2011-07-25 09:35:55 UTC

This wishlist seems a bit overkill :)

None of xterm, xfce4-terminal, rxvt-unicode support that. gnome-terminal-3.0.1 does not, either, although its bugzilla record claim it does.

Comment 4 Jekyll Wu 2011-07-30 18:34:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> 

My previous observation is mostly wrong. Just ignore that comment.

Comment 5 Jekyll Wu 2011-07-30 21:30:32 UTC

*** Bug 240929 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 ninjalj 2021-06-27 18:24:14 UTC

*** Bug 439124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***