[xmonad] 2 bugs in pasteSelection (7s for /s on german keyboard, whitespaces lost)

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Carlos Franke <carlos_franke at posteo.de>wrote:

> I noticed two misbehaviours of pasteSelection (from Xmonad.Util.Paste):
>
> 1. In my setup, most notably with a standard German (QWERTZ) keyboard
> layout, pasteSelection converts slashes ("/") to sevens ("7"), thus messing
> up URLs and path names. With a QWERTZ keyboard, you get a slash by pressing
> Shift-7, so this is probably connected.
>
> 2. Whitespaces (space, tab, newline) are lost when pasting with
> pasteSelection.
>

These are known limitations, although there's no bug for them (but
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=554 is related). It's not
clear that it's fixable, because the only way to do this in X11 is to
simulate keystrokes.

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