Bug#360298: gnome-terminal: add "copy w/o newlines" option to edit and right-click menus

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 22:39 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > > sometimes it is desirable to copy text from the shell with newlines
> > > replaced by spaces (paragraphs and writtings).  this request is for that
> > > option to be added to xfce terminal.  thanks for the hard work.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is this request also for gnome-terminal (you wrote "xfce terminal" in
> > the report), or should I reassign it?
> 
> this was a typo.  this bug does indeed apply to gnome-terminal.  thanks.

Okay, but I don't understand why gnome-terminal should need a feature
like this? Replacing newlines with spaces seem like it belongs in an
editor?

For example, it's really simple to do this in Gedit. Just use Search >
Replace, and set it to \n and " " (space).

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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