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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script Problems, Lose formatting when copy pasting from formatted file. Post 302547480 by facetoe on Monday 15th of August 2011 11:53:27 PM
Old 08-16-2011
Yes the file is here on the local computer. I'm not copy pasting from the terminal window but from the output file. The output file is formatted correctly, nice neat columns, but when I try and copy from it and paste into another file it loses all formatting. I was hoping I could introduce spaces to separate the rows, but it would need to be done via some script as the data in the file will change everyday.

I'm trying to get this to display on my desktop with geektool, but it looks like geektool mangles the formatting in the exact same way that copy paste does. So I think it if I can solve the problem with copy paste, I will have solved the problem in geek tool. At least I hope...
 

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DtEditorInvokeFormatDialog(library call)								  DtEditorInvokeFormatDialog(library call)

NAME
DtEditorInvokeFormatDialog -- display the DtEditor widget dialog for choosing formatting options SYNOPSIS
#include <Dt/Editor.h> void DtEditorInvokeFormatDialog( Widget widget); DESCRIPTION
The DtEditorInvokeFormatDialog function displays the Format Settings dialog of the DtEditor widget. This dialog enables a user to set the text formatting options: margins and text alignments (left aligned, right aligned, justified or centered). The dialog also provides the capability to format either the paragraph containing the insertion cursor or the entire contents of the DtEditor widget. The Format Set- tings dialog remains displayed until the user closes it. For a complete description of the Format Settings dialog, see DtEditor. Text can be formatted programmatically with DtEditorFormat(3). The widget argument specifies the DtEditor widget ID. For a complete definition of the DtEditor widget and its associated resources, see DtEditor(3). RETURN VALUE
The DtEditorInvokeFormatDialog function returns no value. SEE ALSO
Dt/Editor.h - DtEditor(5), DtEditor(3), DtEditorFormat(3). DtEditorInvokeFormatDialog(library call)
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