Greetings, Thomas Wolff! >>>>> I have uploaded mintty 2.9.4 with the following changes: >>>>> Terminal features >>>>> * Copy as HTML (#811). >>>> I should agree with Achim. This feature is utterly broken. >>>> Copied fragments are inserted as HTML TABLES(of all the things!) with no >>>> formatting whatsoever. >>> OK, it shall be made configurable. But please describe in which ways >>> workflows are broken and how / in which application HTML tables (HTML >>> source?) would appear. >> When I copy a text string, I fully expect it to remain a string. Formatted, >> colored, but still string. > I'd interpret this to mean that the feature is welcome but its details > are not? > If you want coloured text, it needs to remain HTML format (or RTF) as > plain text is not coloured.
Yes. >>> Of course plain text clipboard format is still supplied (multiple >>> formats can be copied to the Windows clipboard at the same time, >>> otherwise I wouldn't have enabled this by default), and the assumption >>> was that an application pasting plain text from the Windows clipboard >>> would still retrieve that. >> Plain text is pasted as text, that's not an issue. >> But pasting into a text processor is broken. >> When I copy a text from PuTTY, it is pasted as colored/formatted, but text. > Which means putty also copies something formatted, either HTML or RTF, > otherwise it wouldn't be coloured. PuTTY uses RTF in addition to plain text, if "copy as rich text" is enabled. >> When I copy same text from MinTTY, it is pasted as uncolored/unformatted >> table >> with a single cell. > Uncoloured? It's the purpose of this feature to copy attributes through > the clipboard and it works in all my tests. > Which application pastes it without colours? OpenOffice for one. I intend to check with MS Office, once I have access to one. > The table is another thing, I acknowledge this can be disturbing. The > purpose was an easy way to include an optional transparent image > background in the clipboard. I'll tweak the HTML output to do without it > by default, or maybe always if I can attach the image to a <div>. I think you're stretching yourself out of intended purpose of the feature. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, November 14, 2018 2:00:53 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
