On 21 Sep 2014, Richard Porter <r...@minijem.plus.com> wrote: > On 20 Sep 2014 Tony Moore wrote: > > On 20 Sep 2014, Richard Porter <r...@minijem.plus.com> wrote: > > > > One really annoying feature of NetSurf (RO front end) is that it > > > won't let you paste text from an html file into the URL field. ... > > > It _isn't_ necessary, when using StongED to view the HTML source. > > Press f8 to view the source, select the URL, press ctrl-shft-c to > > copy it to the clipboard, click in the NS URL field (or Open URL > > window), press ctrl-v to paste the URL. Perhaps I've misunderstood > > the problem? > > The problem is that Copy saves the file type of the file you are > copying from to the clipboard, and Paste presents that file type to > the application you are pasting into. NetSurf doesn't accept plain > text pasted from a file that isn't type Text (fff). This restriction > seems to be as unnecessary as it is frustrating.
As said above, here there is _no_ problem in pasting the URL from the clipboard (RO 6.20, NS 2107, SE 4.69). Which application are you using to view the NS HTML source? Tony
