[TAG] Recording OpenCourseWare free lectures

[Ben Okopnik]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:16:34PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 
> It seems worth noting here that (from our perspective, at least) the
> problem is that a) *mutt* interposes that silly plus sign and b) $XTERM
> doesn't Do The Right Thing when copying around line breaks (which is
> almost *never* to include the line break itself).

Really? Which xterm and which WM? Under IceWM and using 'xterm', 'rxvt',
and 'rxvt-ml', it does indeed DTRT. The following is pasted from an
xterm with 'vi' running in it and set to 20 characters wide:

``
This is a test of the emergency copying system. This is only a test. If
this was a real copy-and-paste scenario, this line would be broken every
20 characters.
''

I do recall KDE doing some odd stuff in Konsole, but that had more to do
with character width and using UTF-8. I don't recall ever running into a
line-break problem; in fact, I was quite chuffed when I saw how Linux
terminals (and the console) handled it in just the right way.


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