This seems to happen only if copied text spans several pages. I.e. if I use Ctrl+Shift+A to select everything and Ctrl+Shift+C to copy it to the clipboard, sometimes clipboard would contain one very long line instead of several pages (hunderds of lines) of text I see in Konsole. Might have something to do with "Clear Scrollback and Reset" command I use often. This is also a very old bug: I have a much older system at work and there it also sometimes happens. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: I can't spot a pattern when exactly it happens.
Certain way to reproduce it. Make sure that "Select All" has a shortcut, e.g. Ctrl+Shift+A. 1. Open a new Konsole tab, window, or start a new application instance. 2. Type Enter so that there are two lines with the shell prompt. 3. Press Ctrl+Shift+A, i.e. the shortcut for "Select All". 4. Press Ctrl+Shift+C, i.e. the shortcut for "Copy". 5. Paste the copied text somewhere else. The pasted text contains *single line* with two times the shell prompt at the beginning and many-many spaces at the end.
Confirming on master (fb812c75). Select All starts working properly after any manual selection.
Git commit 10a41f41b090a485b041c83b891c78aacf034f80 by Kurt Hindenburg, on behalf of Mariusz Glebocki. Committed on 10/04/2018 at 13:33. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'master'. Always preserve line breaks on "Select All" action Summary: `_preserveLineBreaks` was set/reset only in mousePressEvent, and was initially disabled. This led to use of the last setting from mouse selection, or initial value, by "Select All". Test Plan: * Start Konsole * Run `seq 100` * (optional, test should give the same effect with and without this step) Press {key Ctrl} and select some text * Edit → Select All * Copy * Paste in any text editor **Expected result:** text should be in multiple lines (like on Konsole screen) **Actual result:** text is pasted as one line === Regression tests === * Run `seq 100` * Select few lines using mouse * Copy * Paste in any text editor **Expected result:** text should be in multiple lines (like on Konsole screen) * Run `seq 100` * Press {key Ctrl} and select few lines using mouse * Copy * Paste in any text editor **Expected result:** text should be pasted as one line Reviewers: #konsole, hindenburg Reviewed By: #konsole, hindenburg Subscribers: hindenburg, #konsole Tags: #konsole Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D12058 M +1 -3 src/SessionController.cpp M +12 -1 src/TerminalDisplay.cpp M +5 -0 src/TerminalDisplay.h https://commits.kde.org/konsole/10a41f41b090a485b041c83b891c78aacf034f80
Git commit 9fa8c11d1feab41ec5f114757e3acf27a428a117 by Kurt Hindenburg, on behalf of Mariusz Glebocki. Committed on 10/04/2018 at 14:05. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'Applications/18.04'. Always preserve line breaks on "Select All" action Summary: `_preserveLineBreaks` was set/reset only in mousePressEvent, and was initially disabled. This led to use of the last setting from mouse selection, or initial value, by "Select All". Test Plan: * Start Konsole * Run `seq 100` * (optional, test should give the same effect with and without this step) Press {key Ctrl} and select some text * Edit → Select All * Copy * Paste in any text editor **Expected result:** text should be in multiple lines (like on Konsole screen) **Actual result:** text is pasted as one line === Regression tests === * Run `seq 100` * Select few lines using mouse * Copy * Paste in any text editor **Expected result:** text should be in multiple lines (like on Konsole screen) * Run `seq 100` * Press {key Ctrl} and select few lines using mouse * Copy * Paste in any text editor **Expected result:** text should be pasted as one line Reviewers: #konsole, hindenburg Reviewed By: #konsole, hindenburg Subscribers: hindenburg, #konsole Tags: #konsole Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D12058 (cherry picked from commit 10a41f41b090a485b041c83b891c78aacf034f80) M +1 -3 src/SessionController.cpp M +12 -1 src/TerminalDisplay.cpp M +5 -0 src/TerminalDisplay.h https://commits.kde.org/konsole/9fa8c11d1feab41ec5f114757e3acf27a428a117