In my less (and also vi, for all that matters), when I try copy a wrapped line by marking it with the mouse, only the part of the line where I double click is copied, e.g.
lets say that this
is a a very long line
wrapped 3 times
So trying to copy the entire line results in either 'lets say that this', 'is a a very long line' or 'wrapped 3 times'.
When marking the 3 lines together and copying them will result with 3 different lines with line breaks between them (so copy to shell is a big no-no).
The problem doesn't occur when opening files with emacs and I couldn't find anything in the less man pages to stop it.
Any idea how to make the less give me the entire wrapped line when copying?
The terminal normally doesn't know you have a wrapped line. Performing a copy with the mouse will result in a rectangular area being selected (a number of lines and columns of characters).That being said, different implementation of terminals might "know" you've got a wrapped line.