Terminal that doesn't embed CR in copied text - is there one?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:10:20PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I often cut/copy long chunks of text from terminal windows that
> continue over multiple lines of the window.  Is there any way to
> prevent CRs being added to the pasted text?

You could process the clipboard contents, e.g.

  $ xsel | tr '\n' ' ' | xsel

> I'm sure this *used* to work "in the old days" but now I can't find
> anywhere that it seems to work.

I'm not familiar with any terminal emulator that did this, but maybe I'm
just not old enough.  ;)

> I'm currently using xfce4-terminal but I'm quite happy to change to
> another if it offers a workaround for this issue.

Marius Gedminas
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