From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Stephani
&= gt; It=E2=80=99s a nice feature but be aware that most DE-specific X-based<= br> > terminal emulators (GNOME, Xfce, Konsole, =E2=80=A6) do not implement = it and
> still advertise themselves as TERM=3Dxterm[-256color].
Right, the code needs to be able to handle the situation where the
underlying terminal emulator doesn't support the feature.
There are typically 2 situations:
- the terminal emulator just ignores the special codes we send, so we
=C2=A0 can happily delude ourselves into thinking they always work.
- we check the terminal version info before enabling/using the feature
=C2=A0 (see xterm--version-handler in lisp/xterm.el).
It seems the first option won't work here, since we may send large
chunks of text as clipboard contents, which are unlikely to be
silently ignored.