On 06/27/2018 09:47 AM, Beartooth wrote: > > Firefox has a feature that (I hope) might well be universal. > > If I highlight a URL which my mailer (Alpine) breaks into several > lines and then paste it in, Ffx takes care of the nonce line breaks, > going right to the site. But if I copy that URL (sometimes, as with > changing an xfinity password, many seeming lines long) into any other > browser, *I* have to eliminate all the line breaks (and sometimes, not > always, introduced extraneous characters such as % a/o angle brackets). > > Might not this virtue be grafted into Fedora's versions of other > browsers, or into Fedora itself?
The apparent line breaks (or line wraps) are created by the way Firefox is rendering the text (e.g. in a frame). There are no "inserted" newlines in the text, it's just the way it's displayed so selecting the text does not pick up any extra characters. In other applications, newlines _may_ be inserted for display purposes, so selecting them and doing a cut-and-paste will most likely pick up those inserted newlines. As an example, create a text file using vi that has tab characters at the beginning of the lines and save it. Reopen it in vi and select one of the lines with a leading tab. In another window, create a new file in vi and paste the cut text into it. You'll find that the start of the line is not a single tab character, but eight spaces. Close the first file and "cat" it. Select the SAME line from the "cat" output and paste it into the second file and you'll find that THAT line starts with a single tab character. See? It's the way the text is rendered that affects how selection is done and this is what complicates things. I'm not saying it's impossible, but pretty danged complex to try to sort out what the _expected_ behavior is supposed to be. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FVCOSFFB6X2BOSDICXWCRDB5VGQF6ICG/
