[BRLTTY] Making easier to accumulate filenames in theclipboard

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Mon Jul 10 17:37:57 EDT 2023


On Mon, 10 Jul 2023, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Hello Nicolas and many thanks for your proposed implementation, I think
> it's indeed a very good idea!
> 
> I'm just unsure about the separator that shoudl  be used when
> concatenating. I do understand that '\n' suits your use-case well, but,
> after, all, why would ' ' (space) not be considered another legitimate
> candidate?

If you want a space, you should use a linear copy.

By definition, a rectangular copy is a block. It makes no sense for the 
beginning of that block to be merged with the last line of the existing 
clipboard content, otherwise it is no longer a block.


Nicolas


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