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copy and paste tabs between terminal windows in X11

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Mar 15, 20263144 views
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When I copy and paste text using the X11 mouse selection between two terminal windows, tabs are often, but not always, converted to spaces. This appears to depend on the involved terminal applications and the programs running inside them. This is what I've found out by experimentation: It depends s…

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Fix for: copy and paste tabs between terminal windows in X11

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Yes, your observation is correct. What happens when you copy-paste is that the target obtains the data from the source. When displaying your tabs, the (and ), apparently, translate them into spaces themselves (if the application running inside the t…

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