Thanks Carol; and that prompts me to mention that I should have said I was using Jart. I will try Notepad, but, even if it works, Jart used to work in this respect, and now it doesn't.
-- Reg <[email protected]> On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:40:06 -0500 Carol and Roger <[email protected]> wrote: > I used to get the same thing when pasting into Notepad. If I wanted a list > to show up, I needed to paste it into Wordpad. I could, however, paste it > into a Thunderbird message and the lines would appear normal. These results > were from a program that copied file names in Windows Explorer. I can not > use F8 to select text in Windows Explorer, so I used the standard arrow key > commands and tried to copy the text of a list of files. When I paste the > list into Notepad, it places the song titles all bunched up. I can paste the > same list into Wordpad or a Thunderbird email text body and they are once > again in a list format, even if I copy the jumbled list from Notepad. > Apparently, Notepad does hold the line breaks, but simply does not display > them in the program. > > Carol > > > > > > > > On 1/4/2015 3:02 PM, Reg Webb wrote: > > Chris > > > > A more general annoyance is that line breaks in copied material are not > > preserved. If I copy text into a document, any line breaks which > > apparently existed in the original disappear. > > > > Returning to my playlist copied into the browser from Winamp using > > control+alt+g, the list is presented in Firefox with numbers, with each > > list item on a separate line. But now, when copied into a document > > using the > > F8 method, it is presented as a continuous string of text, with no numbers. > > This means that I have to reinsert numbers and line breaks before I can > > send it to anyone. Sure, for my radio show, it's only 30 or so items, > > but it's laborious, and I didn't have to do it under the old selection > > method. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
