Paul, please see the ticket I linked in my previous post. There is a standard way of solving this problem, mc should go for that rather than its own hacks. I'm working on the patch right now.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 12:16:53 -0400 > Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2013-09/msg00072.html seems to > > describe a bug in mc-edit. Is the responder there correct that > > auto-indent switched off would stop the bad behavior? Should it need > > to be? Adding all those spaces and/or tabs doesn't make any sense to > > me regardless of how line endings are handled. > > I've been having that problem for ages - with Gnome though. If you > think about it, it's "logical", assuming pasting is handled by terminal > emulator, and not mc itself. And term emu can only implement pasting by > sending pasted content as key presses, including spaces and tab, and > mcedit, with autoindent on, has no idea that it's something else but > keypresses, so blindly applies autoindent as usual. > > So, long ago I indeed worked that around by going to setting and > turning autoindent off then on (boring!). Then however I noticed that > depending on the way you paste you may be able to work it around by > several paste attempts. For example, Gnome terminal has 3 ways to > paste: menu command, Ctrl+Shift+V, Shift+Ins. So far, my background > pattern matcher didn't find exact rule what works better, it seems to > be just non-deterministic, though intuitively, Shift+Ins appear to work > better. > > The way to resolve it would be to handle paste on mc side, and knowing > that mc already has some X integration, I may imagine, when Shift+Ins > works, that's what happens. The culprit is that it doesn't work all the > time and with all paste methods. Which probably partly due to braindead > X clipboard design (multiple buffers, etc). > > -- > Best regards, > Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > mc-devel mailing list > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel >
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