From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: double clicking on text in gnome-terminal apparently is unaware of where line terminators are, and concatenates end-of-line with begining of next line, seemingly unconditionally. This is not always correct. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.2.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set a gnome-terminal to 80 column width 2. touch test_file_this_long_1234 3. touch test_file_this_long_5678 4. ls -l test_file* 5. note that test_file_this_long_1234 bumps exactly the right margin 6. double click on test_file_this_long_1234 7. note that test_file_this_long_1234-rw-rw-rw- is highlighted (i.e. the -rw-rw-rw- from the next line!) Actual Results: test_file_this_long_1234-rw-rw-rw- is highlighted (and put into the copy buffer) Expected Results: test_file_this_long_1234 should have been highlighted, without the trailing wrapped -rw-rw-rw- (which is on w new line by itself). Additional info: double clicking a work at the end of the line should highlight thru the line wrap, if it is a line-wrap, and not if it is a line-terminator.
This doesn't seem to be a problem anymore with recent versions of vte. I'm going to close this bug, but if you encounter problems with a recent version of vte, feel free to reopen.