-------------- > 2. The ghost tabs and ghost single space characters are not > transferred........................................ > anywhere else when mouse-paste is done........
You mean an exta comminication between the mouse-paster and the editor? Such complications are to be avoided. > I understand that there is an option to turn these ghost characters on, > or to turn them off. GOOD! Show me how ? > As to your statement "But paste-ability must take precedence over your >special example, because it's a more basic operation." I am in fact not >Editing files, or copying pieces of what you are editing to some other >place? Me, I spend more time with editing the files. And if what I am >editing is code, which is often the case, then I really do not want the >hidden characters to be turned off and no way to turn them on. That would >render relatively useless an editor which I have come to rely on for much >of that work, which would make me unhappy.. No. My requiremet trumps yours. The most primitive requirement is UNIQUE. All further fancy-facilities are merely ONE of an infinite fad posibility. In law and common sense, drinking water may be a human-right; tea, coke...whisky is not. PS. I've hit another arty-crapness, similar to the use of *.pdf, where plain text is adequate and thus better: `links` fills in the line-len with spaces!? Shoot all the grafiti-vandals!! _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc