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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:21:31 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CVS head bash problem
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:57:21PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:23:28PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>There used to be a patch for this, but I think it's way out of date at
>>>this point.  The author of the patch (Steve Osbourn, who, incidentally,
>>>is also the rxvt maintainer) has started to provide the functionality
>>>incrementally in small patches, but, AFAIK, this process was never
>>>completed.
>>
>>That's my fault.  Steve was submitting little patches to get us there
>>but the last one required some study and I never got around to
>>completing my studying.
>
>Should we (can we) resurrect this?  It would be really nice to be able
>to paste into an xterm without worrying how big the selection is...

Well, there is nothing changed about my situation so I'm not sure how it
could be resurrected.  There were problems with the patch (like a
potential race) as it stood but it needed some study before I could
offer intelligent opinions.

cgf

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