06:45 <krobelus> looks like pasting with control-shift-v drops tab characters, is that intended behavior?

09:03 <dnkl> krobelus: no it doesn't. But the client application may

09:03 <dnkl> how are you testing?

09:09 <krobelus> dnkl: First I run `printf '\tx\ty' | wl-copy`. Pasting this into a bash prompt works fine but pasting it into cat makes it just "xy".

09:09 <dnkl> yup, cat, or maybe the tty, eats the tabs in this case

09:10 <dnkl> foot doesn't translate the tab character to anything else when sending the paste data to the client application. What happens after that is mostly up to the client application

09:11 <krobelus> the tabs are preserved in gnome-terminal or konsole

09:11 <krobelus> so I guess it's down to stty

09:12 <dnkl> hmm, yeah, works in kitty too

09:17 <dnkl> ah, hold on... sorry, I was wrong :| we *do* strip tab characters when bracketed paste is *disabled*. This behavior was copied from xterm

09:18 <dnkl> https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/src/branch/master/selection.c#L1848-L1855

09:19 <dnkl> I think it should be safe to allow HT in non-bracketed mode as well

09:22 <krobelus> Shift+Insert in xterm does include the tabs

09:24 <dnkl> if I remember correctly, I based that on xterm's documentation. May very well be that they've changed its behavior without updating the documentation. The behavior is also configurable, so there's a chance you're not seeing the default behavior

09:27 <dnkl> https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1084

09:27 <dnkl> but yeah, works for me as well in XTerm

09:31 <dnkl> krobelus: the PR that started stripping control characters mention that XTerm *does* filter tabs. But instead of just removing them, it replaces them with spaces.

09:31 <dnkl> https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/312

09:45 <krobelus> dnkl: but xterm preserves the tabs (does not convert to spaces) when I disable bracketed paste mode (with `printf '\e[?2004l'`)

09:46 <dnkl> yeah, it looks that way. I updated the foot issue mentioned above, a while ago. I'm trying to find out where I saw this behavior documented

09:53 <dnkl> krobelus: so, it mostly likely came from XTerm's "disallowedPasteControls" resource. It's documented in XTerm's man page. However, at least in the latest release (372), the default list is BS,DEL,ENQ,EOT,ESC,NUL. I.e. HT is not included.

09:53 <dnkl> not sure if this is something that has changed, or if I misread it the last time