Copying from ssh->tmux->Ctrl-B+[ leads to many trailing spaces in some lines

[vadimkantorov]

Windows Terminal version

1.22.11141.0

Windows build number

10.0.22631.5189

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

When copying some printouts from tmux, there are a lot of trailing spaces, and sometimes missing newline chars

vllm-project/vllm#16859 (comment)

E.g. here I had to manually insert newlines (but still kept the trailing spaces for bug demonstration purposes)

Expected Behavior

No trailing spaces, and newline chars preserved when copy-pasting output in tmux

Actual Behavior

trailing spaces and missing newline chars

[similar-issues-ai]

We've found some similar issues:

• Multi-line copies from tmux scrollback buffer strips newlines #13898 , similarity score: 82%
• Windows line breaks are ignored when copying text in tmux copy mode #8532 , similarity score: 82%
• Rectangular select copies trailing spaces #9706 , similarity score: 81%

If any of the above are duplicates, please consider closing this issue out and adding additional context in the original issue.

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[vadimkantorov]

For newlines, this might be duplicate of #8976 - it's a pity, this this issue still bites after so many years :(

For trailing spaces, the problem here is that I'm not doing rectangular selection specifically as in #9706, but just some arbitrary text selection

[DHowett]

Since this bug contains what appears to be two issues, I'm going to make this one the primary for the spaces issue.

If you can reproduce the spaces issue under the debug tap, would you be willing to share the output... or some repro steps/? Thanks.

[vadimkantorov]

I will try, but it may take some days to catch it again