Re: Another bug in pre-8.2

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:15:36 -0500
Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org> wrote:

> 
> On Friday 07 November 2003 06:05, Irene Vatton wrote:
> > Joseph Reagle <joseph.nyu@reagle.org> wrote:
> > > 13. Return of the copy/paste bug in the text editor that removes spaces
> > > between attributes or an attribute an element name.
> >
> > I'm not able to reproduce this bug.
> > Could you give me a scenario with an example?
> 
> Sure, though it's weird because if I select text in the text editor so I 
> can do a before and after, when I paste it here (KMail), it has all these extra 
> carriage returns:
> 
> <
> a
> href="../photo/web/2003/10/31-ny-halloween-critical-mass-gathering-wheel-lights.jpg"><img
> alt="NY Halloween Critical Mass" class="thumb" align="right"
> src="../photo/web/2003/10/thumbs/31-ny-halloween-critical-mass-gathering-wheel-lights.jpg"
> /></a>
> 
> But, if I manually transcribe what it looks like, in the Amaya text editor, before, it looks like:
> 
> <a href="../photo/web/2003/10/31-ny-halloween-critical-mass-gathering-wheel-lights.jpg"><img ...
> 
> and after the paste:
> <ahref="../photo/web/2003/10/31-ny-halloween-critical-mass-gathering-wheel-lights.jpg"><img ...

I added a protection to be sure that spaces are preserved in the source view and text files.

> However, oddly enough, I'm not able to reproduce *that* error in Amaya now. (Copy/paste has always 
> been problematic for me, especially between Amaya and KDE applications. 
> Somehow the copy/paste buffer gets confused... but it's always inconsistent so it's hard to
> report a bug.)

We didn't find yet a solution but we continue to investigate.
     Irene.
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