Hi,

When I copy a message displayed in the pager with the mouse, and paste
the result for example in another tab, I get a lot of trailing spaces.
My pager is `less`.

This does not happen when I copy text from the `less` pager run
independently in the terminal.

Does it happen to anyone else? If yes, what is your way around this?

Thanks,

Cédric

Hello,

>When I copy a message displayed in the pager with the mouse, and paste 
>the result for example in another tab, I get a lot of trailing spaces. 
>My pager is `less`.

does it happen for all messages, or only for some? Does _a lot of 
trailing spaces_ mean one after almost every line? If so, it may 
actually be `format=flowed` what you are observing.

Vojta

Hi Cédric,

This is due to how aerc embedded terminal renders lines. I was told by Tim that it could be fixable.

I am not sure how exactly but I think it would involve writing a line termination sequence instead of drawing spaces until the end of the screen.

Tim, could you draft a patch for vaxis term?

Cheers

> does it happen for all messages, or only for some? Does _a lot of 
> trailing spaces_ mean one after almost every line? If so, it may 
> actually be `format=flowed` what you are observing.

Yes it happens with all messages: in the copied result, all lines have
the same length, everything is padded on the right with spaces. This is
exactly what Robin describes. Having such a patch for line termination
instead of extra spaces would be just great.

Cheers,

On 19/02/2025, 18:54, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> Having such a patch for line termination instead of extra spaces would be just great.

It'd be even better if such a patch removed all whitespace after *and also before* the lines: some of us have our pager centered (with `pr -T -o $((($(tput cols) - 78)/2))`), which introduces a left gutter composed by spaces, and, while it's beautiful, it's kinda annoying when copypasting. ^_^