X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: From: Ralf Gans To: xerces8 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: Re: Copy converts tabs to spaces ? Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:56:48 +0100 References: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hi, copy an paste from window to window takes what's printed, not what you have written. So, if the terminal prints spaces to represent the tabs, as a terminal usualy does, you CAN only copy spaces. All else is an exception, U*X ist NOT wysiwyg! Regards, Ralf On 02.02.2009, at 11:05, xerces8 wrote: > Hi! > > I noticed that when copying text from a the Cygwin Bash window and > then pasting it somewhere (like > WordPad), tabulator characters are converted to spaces. > > The same happens with RXVT too. > > Details: > - print the content of some text file that has tabs (like a C > program source) : cat foo.c > - select and copy the text with the mouse > - paste (ctrl-V) into WordPad > > The text in Wordpad has no more tabs. > > Is there a way around this ? > > Regards, > David > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/