Closed Bug 264568 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Pasting multiple lines of text into single-line entries should cause each line to be sent.

Categories

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Product:
Other Applications
Component:
ChatZilla
Platform:
x86
Windows Server 2003
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: jailbird, Assigned: rginda)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Firefox/0.10 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Firefox/0.10 in ircII, if you paste multiple lines of text into the client, it parses each line separatly, and sends them on. In ChatZilla, if you paste multiple lines in, it just stops after the first line. ChatZilla should look for the carriage-return and/or line-feed in the paste, and treat that just like an <Enter> keypress. This is useful for pasting log entries. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select multiple lines of text (document, web page, etc) 2. Paste into ChatZilla Actual Results: Each line should get sent to the channel. If CR or LF is at end of input, text should automatically be sent. Expected Results: Only one line is inserted into the input line. User then has to press <Enter> manually.
I thought there was already a bug for this, but I can't find it right now. However, it is irrelevant anyways, since you can just use the multi-line input box for that purpose. Use ctrl-up or the handy button at the end of the input box to switch to multi-line mode. Use ctrl-enter to send. Ctrl-down or the button will return you to single-line mode.
I don't even know if we *can* override the pasting to make it work any better...
This problem is also OS dependent. It works on Linux, I can paste multiple lines into the single line box. I don't know about Mac.
Product: Core → Other Applications
You should get most of this for free from bug 253481 (whenever it's finished)
Depends on: 253481
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
You should now be able (on trunk) to add the attribute newlines="pasteintact". Then in an oninput listener, see if there are newlines in the textbox.value. If so, handle all the lines. I tested this with a quick xul mockup, and it works fine.
That is an unsatisfactory solution to this bug IMHO. For example, nsIClipboardDragDropHooks is a better solution, although it only goes back to 2003-04-17.
At least on windows, the suggestion from bug 307774 sounds more sane to me.
Marking wontfix in favour of bug 307774.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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