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Bug 77623 - cut-and-paste adds extra newlines
Summary: cut-and-paste adds extra newlines
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 75904
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: vte
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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Blocks: 79579 CambridgeTarget
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-11 05:15 UTC by Jason Merrill
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-11-10 20:39:46 UTC
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Description Jason Merrill 2002-11-11 05:15:22 UTC 
Description of Problem:

if the text i select in gnome-terminal has a space at the end of a line, cutting
and pasting it adds a newline at the end of that line, even if the text was
originally output on a single line.  This breaks cutting and pasting of command
lines.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.0.1-5

How Reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type 'aaaaaaaaa...' up to one character before the end of the terminal row.
2. Hit the space bar a couple of times, then add some more aaaaaaaaaa's.
3. Cut and paste this long line.

Actual Results:

It is pasted as two lines.

Expected Results:

It should be pasted as a single line, since it was entered as a single line.

Additional Information:
	
This happens both with select/middle-click and with cut/paste from the
right-click menu.
Comment 1 Nakai 2002-11-25 06:14:33 UTC 
A customer reported a similar example today.
(So I filed it here)

Input
'aaa bbb ccc'
in a line and select 'aaa ' (include space)
and paste. It will paste 'aaa' and a new line.
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2003-01-14 04:14:15 UTC 
Should be fixed in Raw Hide.  Please reopen if you find that this is not the case.
Comment 3 Jason Merrill 2003-06-26 20:24:23 UTC 
ynakai's testcase is fixed in Shrike, but mine is not.
Comment 4 John Gotts 2003-11-13 18:48:53 UTC 
vte inserts newline characters where none existed and omits them where
they did exist.

The former situation occurs when there are one or more spaces at the
end of a physical line but in the middle of a virtual line.  The
latter occurs when a logical line exactly matches the length of a
physical line.

Let's say I bring up a gnome-terminal with a 10-character width.  I
type in the string "123456789 123456789" which will display as:

123456789
123456789

Pasting the string to another gnome-terminal will result in the string
getting broken in the middle.

Let's say I enter the string "1234567890" and then enter the string
"123456789" which will display as:

1234567890
123456789

Now gnome-terminal will join the result on a cut and paste where there
should have been a newline.

This behavior is not just annoying but causes me to waste a lot of
time repairing damage.  When a simple rpm --upgrade would suffice, I
find I have to carefully paste things while studying how the command
spans lines.  When I'm root I like to check my commands before
executing.  But with the newline-insertion behavior, I've gotten a few
surprises.  Luckily I haven't lost any important data.
Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-11-10 20:39:46 UTC 
Hi,
The former case has been fixed and the latter is filed as bug 75904


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75904 ***
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