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Re: Copy-pasing verbatim text pastes unwanted newline at the end

 

May I suggest opening a bug report for this ?

Regards,

Jaap


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Adrian Fita <adrian.fita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25/04/13 09:38, andré wrote:
>> Adrian Fita a écrit :
>>> This happens when selecting individual lines as well, not only multiple
>>> lines. And I select until the end of the line with Shift+End. Pressing
>>> Shift+Right arrow to unselect the last newline actually unselects the
>>> last character, so the selection doesn't contain the newline char at the
>>> end of the line. But the pasted text contains a newline.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Fita Adrian
>>>
>>
>> Doesn't work like that on Linux.
>
> Hm. I just tested in Linux (the same v0.59) and it happens in Linux as well.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. write some lines in a page
> 2. select the lines and press Ctrl+T (or select Verbatim from the Format
> menu)
> 3. Hit the Home key and copy-paste until the end of the line from the
> Verbatim-formatted text in another text editor. The pasted text contains
> a newline at the end
>
>> What happens if you add a space at the end of the line, then unselect
>> the space ?
>
> It happens even when I have space at the end and select until the end of
> the line, then unselect the last space: the pasted text contains a new
> line at the end. The newline is even present when I only select a part
> of a line.
>
> But I just figured something: if I don't select from the begining of the
> line, the newline is not pasted. So it seems to be related with the
> begining of the lines in Verbatim-formatted text.
>
>> Or alternately, select the lines you want by placing the cursor at the
>> beginning of the line, using the down arrow to select the line(s)
>> wanted, then backspacing to the last caracter of the line ?
>> (Just in case the shift-end code was still present when you used it.)
>>
>> Or again, using only the mouse to select the text, without using shift-end ?
>>
>> Regards
>
> Selecting with the mouse is the same.
>
> --
> Adrian Fita
>
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