Bug 69403

For the less part, konsole doesn't know it's a single long line because less does the breaking.

I don't know Konsole code internally, but it seems to me that it knows internally which lines were wrapped by itself and what got line-wrapped by a LF.

In other words, less sends a line-break, so Konsole isn't wrong in giving you two distinct lines.

Bug seems to be a duplicate of Bug 64295 or vice versa.

*** Bug 64295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Maybe that less sends a line-break and that Konsole isn't wrong to paste
that line-break. But the same problem occurs with many other terminal
applications (including vim), and if I run those in xterm, pasting wrapped
lines works perfectly well. I'm not absolutely sure, but I believe to
remember that even Konsole could do that better in previous versions.

Updating the bug report, as requested.  This is still a problem in KDE 2.2.2.  Thanks.

Argh I mean KDE 3.2.2 of course.  Thanks.

This also works for me.  Perhaps some screenshots would help clarify the bug.

A 100% reproducable case would be helpful as well.

>When running vim in both konsoles, this always happens when my TERM is set to
>linux.  It doesn't happen if my TERM is set to vt100 or xterm.

I just tried this again and it still occurs for me.  I'm not sure I understand- you're saying you don't observe this behavior?

1. Open 2 konsoles, set TERM=linux in both and run vim in both.
2. From the vim session in konsole #1 copy and paste a wrapped line into the vim session in konsole #2.  There will be an extra newline inserted in konsole #2.

I'm not sure what this means, other than the TERM setting is possibly involved.

>When copying the output of "more" or "less" in one konsole, and pasting into
>vim in the second konsole, this always happens.

Again I'm not sure I understand- you don't observe this?  As other people have pointed out, "more" and "less" are sending a line-break.

1. Open 2 konsoles.  In konsole #1 "less" a file with a wrapped line and in konsole #2 run vim.
2. Copy and paste a wrapped line from konsole #1 into the vim session in konsole #2.  There will be a newline inserted.

Perhaps this behavior of konsole is technically correct- but gnome-terminal is smart enough to NOT insert a newline.  This is something people do all the time, copy and paste from "more" or "less" into a vim session.

>This doesn't happen with gnome-terminal.

And unfortunately I can't test this anymore as I don't have gnome installed.  Perhaps someone else with gnome-terminal installed could confirm this?

Thanks!

> Perhaps this behavior of konsole is technically correct- but
> gnome-terminal is smart enough to NOT insert a newline.  This is
> something people do all the time, copy and paste from "more" or "less"
> into a vim session.

Copy or paste into anything else, it doesn't have to be a vim session.
Any other editor window will do. Whether konsole's behaviour is
technically correct is the wrong approach, it's a pain. The old xterm
never had any problems with this, konsole ought to not be worse than
xterm. Dunno how xterm does it though.

Volker

I can reproduce this bug in kconsole in KDE 3.2.3, but I believe that this is a new bug. I didn't encouter this grave problem before.

From Help file:
"Normally, new-line characters are inserted at the end of each line selected. This is best for cut and paste of source code, or the output of a particular command. For ordinary text, the line breaks are often not important. One might prefer, however, for the text to be a stream of characters that will be automatically re-formatted when pasted into another application. To select in text-stream mode, hold down the Ctrl key while selecting normally."

There is also a 'tip of the day' about this...
"...that pressing Ctrl while selecting text will let Konsole ignore line breaks? "

*** Bug 64295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***