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From: "Dr. Michael L. Dowling" <Mike.Dowling@t-online.de>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, 29357@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29357: Cut and paste problems on Linux on a text virtual console no longer works
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:36:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200816193624.GB3196@moocow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkBNGJOvbv1yqOWR7YE2Crm0EuKgxbtxSY_tk1V+Uz_tw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:46:40AM -0700, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> > There are several annoyances with this way of working - if you've got
> > side-by-side windows, you've really got to get rid of all but the
> > pertinent window before being able to mark text with the mouse; when you
> > yank text in with the middle button, linefeeds misbehave, giving
> > indentation where none is wanted.  For all that, having GPM is better
> > than not having it.
> 
> This is very useful information, thank you.  If I understand you
> correctly, this is a limitation in GPM, and not in Emacs.  Maybe some
> interested party could report this as a feature request to GPM.
> 
> BTW, maybe someone could test and see if this works with some other
> program that also splits the display to see if it has the same problem.

If I can be of any further assistance I would be willing to try, but I'd
need somebody to suggest how.

> I suppose that means that this bug should be closed?  Or is there
> anything more we should do?

I  had come  to the  conclusion  that I  was  one of  the last  die-hard
Linux/text-mode/command line users.  Were that  to be the case, it would
be unreasonable of me to expect people to work to fix it. But apparently
I'm not the last die-hard user.  But then, why have others not also made
bug reports?

This is a very old bug report.   Since nobody reacted to it, I concluded
that nobody was using text-mode.  Then truecrypt stopped development, so
I adopted  veracrypt instead.  It  worked fine,  except in text  mode it
yielded error messages  from a graphics library.   Since it nevertheless
worked,  I  did not  make  a  bug  report.   I expected  somebody  would
eventually fix it,  but nobody did, until a few  weeks ago, years later.
But that reinforced my conclusion that text-mode was not being used.

If I  can help in any  way, please let  me know.  I personally  have not
noticed any other strange behavious of  GPM, but, with a pointer or two,
I could investigate this.

Cheers,

Mike

-- 
Dr. Michael L. Dowling
Gaußstr. 27
38106 Braunschweig
Germany





  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-16 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-19 16:09 bug#29357: Cut and paste problems on Linux on a text virtual console no longer works Dr. Michael L. Dowling
     [not found] ` <CADwFkmm6hze_2h1fTDiqOFB2At1edfp=oJX5EQdxRidK8XWq0Q@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <20200814195252.GA2819@moocow>
2020-08-14 23:16     ` Stefan Kangas
     [not found] ` <mailman.2142.1597447084.2739.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2020-08-15  8:52   ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-08-16 15:46     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-16 19:36       ` Dr. Michael L. Dowling [this message]
2020-08-16 20:48         ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-17  9:53           ` Dr. Michael L. Dowling

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