Bug 191554

Summary: Trailing spaces not copied when copying highlighted text in Konsole
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Wong CS <lilwong>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED REMIND    
Severity: normal CC: adaptee
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Wong CS 2009-05-04 04:45:40 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I work with fixed width files a lot and I often have to copy out the results of a fixed width output into Kate from Konsole. If a line consists of the string "sdad asdas dasd asdasd asdasdas dasd asdasd adsd                              " and I copy out that chunk in Konsole, I find that the trailing spaces have been trimmed.

This causes issues 'cos I need character-accuracy when evaluating fixed width text fields.

This may be a personal preference thing, but after considering the (probably) use cases of a terminal emulator, I thought that it shouldn't be. 

In any case, is it possible to expose an option of how the copy function should work? 

Thanks!
Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2011-08-01 12:41:59 UTC 
Can't reproduce this(by saving the first paragragh of the report and selecting & copying it in konsole) in KDE-4.7.0

Free free to reopen it with more detailed info , if this still happens in recent version.