Multiline mouse-select of wrapped text / paste includes newlines, if rich text is enabled

1. enable "Pasteboard: Copy to pasteboard on selection includes color and font style" = yes
2. select a single line that spans multiple lines (gets wrapped) in an iTerm window
3. middle-click paste this line

It will insert newlines, where the wrapping happens and try to execute commands that are incomplete.

I guess this is desired, when you want to paste the contents to another window (say Mail), where you want to keep the visual appearance the same, but if the target of the paste is an iTerm, it should not insert those newlines (or remove them).

Milestone changed to Feature complete 3.0

This was a side effect of copying only the styled string. I used to add both the attributed and plain strings to the pasteboard, but some apps would paste only the plain one even though they could render rich text. Unfortunately, -attributedContentInRange:pad:attributeProvider: is less capable than its unstyled counterpart, which takes many more parameters (not least of which: nullpolicy and includeLastNewline), and always converts soft newlines to hard newlines. I don't think it's justifiable for soft newlines to get converted to hard newlines in any case. I should merge the two methods into a single more capable method to keep their behavior in sync.

Added Priority: High label

Thanks for the quick reply.

Ah, that's why I had two entries in iClip (a pasteboard manager), a formatted one, and an unformatted one. Makes perfect sense, now.

One short-term fix would be to copy the unstylized text upon middle-click, which is the most common usage model, I would think.

I'm afraid it's not; so many users have trackpads that middle click is rare these days.

Showing my age, I guess ...

Milestone changed to Ship 3.0

Fixed in commit b3cf72f0.

Status changed to closed