On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 12:10 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 06:46 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > I notice that in Evo 2.30.2 if I have a URL in the clipboard (copied
> > > from a browser window for example) Edit->Paste (Ctrl-V) pastes the
> > > *contents* of the URL as an attachment. To paste the URL itself I have
> > > to use Edit->Paste Quotation (Shift-Ctrl-V).
> > > 
> > > IIRC this is a change and I'm not sure I like it. It seems odd that the
> > > more usual option of pasting the URL -- which is what I want to do maybe
> > > 99.999% of the time -- is harder to get to. No doubt someone thought
> > > that pasting the attachment might be useful, but I can't actually think
> > > of a single reason why I would ever want to do that. I often complain to
> > > people who waste bandwidth sending a page when they could send a URL.
> > > What on Earth is the point?
> > 
> > See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551464
> > 
> 
> OK. So the problem is that everything is a URI?  If the URI points to a
> local file, then yes the default should be to paste the file and not the
> URI.  But if the URI happens to be a non-local file, such as a web
> reference, then the default should surely be to paste the URI and not
> the content.
> 
> For the bugzilla address above - would you want the content of the
> bugzilla page posted or the URI?

Good point :-)

poc

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