> Pasting with gforth didn't work at all. Here's a made-up
> example.
>
> If I paste the following into a gforth terminal window (Mac OS X
> Leopard, powerpc):
>
> \ RSTUVWXYZ
> \ RSTUVWXYZ

> David N. Williams umich.edu> wrote:

>> Pasting with gforth didn't work at all. Here's a made-up
>> example.
>>
>> If I paste the following into a gforth terminal window (Mac OS X
>> Leopard, powerpc):
>>
>> \ RSTUVWXYZ
>> \ RSTUVWXYZ

>
> Works fine here (Dell laptop, Debian, rxvt and xterm).
> I'm pretty sure I've pasted to gforth on my PPC Linux box with no
> problems as well...
>
> --Josh

> David N. Williams umich.edu> wrote:

>> Pasting with gforth didn't work at all. Here's a made-up
>> example.
>>
>> If I paste the following into a gforth terminal window (Mac OS X
>> Leopard, powerpc):
>>
>> \ RSTUVWXYZ
>> \ RSTUVWXYZ

>
> Works fine here (Dell laptop, Debian, rxvt and xterm).
> I'm pretty sure I've pasted to gforth on my PPC Linux box with no
> problems as well...

> Josh Grams wrote:

>> David N. Williams umich.edu> wrote:

>>> Pasting with gforth didn't work at all. Here's a made-up
>>> example.
>>>
>>> If I paste the following into a gforth terminal window (Mac OS X
>>> Leopard, powerpc):
>>>
>>> \ RSTUVWXYZ
>>> \ RSTUVWXYZ

>>
>> Works fine here (Dell laptop, Debian, rxvt and xterm).
>> I'm pretty sure I've pasted to gforth on my PPC Linux box with no
>> problems as well...

>
> Aha! I found an older version of gforth on my system (0.5.0),
> and pasting the example into it works.
>
> Guess I'll try a few more things... ...

> Okay, I tested with gforth 0.6.2, and everthing is fine.
> Furthermore, it doesn't have the problem with pasted tabs that
> pfe does, even though it also uses tab autocompletion. So I'm
> guessing that gforth's autocompletion inserts whitespace into
> the terminal input buffer while pfe's doesn't.

> Looks like I should consult the pfe source.
>
> As for gforth, while the above simple paste works in 0.5.0, my
> more comprehensive tests do not. They do work in 0.6.2, and not
> in 0.6.9. Somehow I don't have a record of from whence I got
> 0.6.9 -- maybe there's some conflict between its build and my
> updated Leopard system...

> David N. Williams wrote:

>> Okay, I tested with gforth 0.6.2, and everthing is fine.
>> Furthermore, it doesn't have the problem with pasted tabs that
>> pfe does, even though it also uses tab autocompletion. So I'm
>> guessing that gforth's autocompletion inserts whitespace into
>> the terminal input buffer while pfe's doesn't.

>
> The autocompletion just looks if further input is pending - if not,
> autocomplete, if yes, insert tab into buffer.