[Konsole-devel] [Bug 240929] New: Konsole converts tabs to spaces on copy/paste

[Ken Bloom]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240929

           Summary: Konsole converts tabs to spaces on copy/paste
           Product: konsole
           Version: 2.4.3
          Platform: Debian unstable
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konsole-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: kbloom at gmail.com


Version:           2.4.3 (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                Linux

Konsole copies tab characters as spaces. This makes pasting
tabularly-formatted data into OpenOffice difficult.

To reproduce:
echo -e "a\tb"

Copy the resulting output

run xxd, and paste the resulting output on the console (into xxd's
standard input)

[bloom at zuni CORPUS_huliu]$ echo -e "a\tb"
a       b
[bloom at zuni CORPUS_huliu]$ xxd
a       b
0000000: 6120 2020 2020 2020 620a                 a       b.

If I perform the same test in rxvt, it copies tabs as tabs:

[bloom at cat-in-the-hat ~]$ echo -e "a\tb"
a    b
[bloom at cat-in-the-hat ~]$ xxd
a    b
0000000: 6109 620a


This is Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583232
It's also previously been reported as
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146146. You closed that bug because you
said that the bug occurs somewhere lower in the software stack, and you can't
fix it in Konsole. Since rxvt shows the correct behavior, I believe that the
assessment you gave in that bug is incorrect, and that RXVT's behavior
demonstrates that the bug is fixable in konsole. Please look into this again.

--Ken Bloom

Reproducible: Always

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