SUMMARY When copying to the clipboard text that contains the string "<?php", the copied text cannot be pasted anywhere - not even in Kate itself. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Start Kate and put in some text, and make sure the text "<?php" appears somewhere 2. Select a bunch of text, make sure it includes "<?php" (it doesn't have to be at the beginning). 3. Go to somewhere else in the document and try to paste the text. OBSERVED RESULT Nothing happens EXPECTED RESULT The copied text should be pasted SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0 Qt Version: 5.15.7 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The copied text cannot be pasted in anything else that I could find: I tried Firefox, konsole, visual studio code and gedit. The problem appears to be that when Kate copies text that contains the string "<?php" it marks its content-type as "application/php" *only* - there's no "text/plain" content type option. As a result, no editor - and that includes Kate itself - will recognized the current clipboard content, and using the "paste" command does nothing. The copied text can be seen by Klipper (at least the system tray widget - the mouse position menu behaves a bit weird), but after selecting something else in Klipper and selecting the offending text again - it cannot be pasted either: klipper dutifully replaces the problematic content type.
Hmm, works for me, text below pasted from Kate on Wayland, master build <?php rstrsat rast arst
I also cannot repro with current Kate (23.03.70 with Frameworks 5.102.0) - copying PHP code, even with the "<?php" text puts just "text/plain" content-type into the clipboard.