| Schnark | |
| Feb 13 2017, 11:14 AM |
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| Dec 2 2019, 10:58 PM |
Steps to reproduce:
Expected: The tab character is copied as tab, the newline as one linebreak (like Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V does).
Actual: The tab character is copied as arrow, the newline as two linebreaks.
Does middle-click-to-copy work in non-special-character selections? Does it work in the visual edit mode?
Using this way to copy just normal text works as expected. In visual mode you get empty lines between paragraphs you copy (just like you get empty lines in source code mode), but there these empty lines are IMHO expected and wanted.
The issue here is that middle-click clone only triggers a paste event, and not a copy event, so the data is written to the clipboard from the CE selection, and not by our special copy handling code. This issue affects visual mode too, in that all formatting is lost.
Change 549087 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Properly support middle click paste
Change 549087 merged by jenkins-bot:
[VisualEditor/VisualEditor@master] Properly support middle click paste
Change 549096 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (2d0f0ec1f)
Change 549096 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Update VE core submodule to master (2d0f0ec1f)
This only fixes pastes inside VE, not into external applications, does it? And these are probably not fixable at all?
Infact, I am seeing the opposite, when I copy paste a line with the tab character and the following line from NWE to any other external text document it is pasting correctly "The tab character is copied as tab, the newline as one linebreak".
But when I paste them in VE it pastes tab character as arrow.
A tab appearing as an arrow in VE mode is correct, so it sounds like everything is working correctly now.