Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.1a) Installed from: FreeBSD Ports OS: FreeBSD [This is not same as 34923] When selecting a <pre> formatted text from the browser, a tab is converted into the equivalent number of spaces. This breaks for example when you are copying a Makefile from a web page. For example try selecting the shar file from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/56709 and paste it into an editor. There is a tab infront of "${REINPLACE_CMD}": Xpre-configure: X ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|-pedantic ||g' ${WRKSRC}/configure X When done from Konqueror, the tab gets copied to clipboard as spaces. When done from Mozilla, the tab is retained as a tab.
Created attachment 2714 [details] Test case html file for the above - Open tabtospacetestcase.html in Mozilla and Konqueror. - Copy and paste the <pre> formatted text elsewhere. If this were white space specific source code (eg: Makefile), then copy/pasting will break. Mozilla DTRT.
Still in HEAD from dec. 28th. THough it's not clear, the example HTML has tabs between each word; pasting into konsole gives: beans.ebn.kun.nl$od -c Select this preformatted text and paste elsewhere 0000000 S e l e c t t h i s 0000020 p r e f o r m a t t e d 0000040 t e x t a n d Klipper displays the copied text slightly differently - it displays the text with each tab converted to a single space in its LMB menu. That might just be its handling for multiple spaces, though.
This is a huge problem when doing research and trying to get report data from statistics websites into spreadsheets.
confirmed in svn trunk r793457.
Not FreeBSD specific. Still in 4.3 rc1.
Still an issue in 4.5.4 - confirmed.
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I just checked with Konqueror and Falkon from whatever is current, on FreeBSD, both paste to konsole and kate with correct tabs (the comment about klipper's display remains, though). Closing as "fixed some time in the past 10 years".