1300560 - Text sometimes won't paste after being copied or cut

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Gitle Mikkelsen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
Build ID: 20160823121617

Steps to reproduce:

Often, after copying or cutting text, it won't paste when I press ctrl+v. I most often come across it when trying to cut my signature from the bottom of the email and paste it to above the quote block. Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't, I can't figure out what the criteria is and can't find a sure way to reproduce it. Seems almost random.

I am sure the text is being copied properly, because when I press ctrl-X to cut, the text does disappear as expected, but as said it won't reappear when I paste it.


Actual results:

Nothing.


Expected results:

Copied text should be pasted.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

(In reply to Gitle Mikkelsen from comment #0)
> ..., I can't figure out what the criteria is and can't find a
> sure way to reproduce it. Seems almost random.
Sorry, but we can't fix random bugs. If you can give exact steps to reproduce and attach sample data/messages to reproduce the problem, then we're interested.

I, as one on the TB developers, use TB (of course) and can't recall any pasting problems.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Gitle,
Do you still see this in version 52?

Comment 3

[Gitle Mikkelsen]

Hi,
Yes I do still see it, and I also think I found a way to reproduce it. It involves a list item inside a quote.

Steps:
1. Create a blank mail, and write "test" in it, and make that text a dotted or numbered list.
2. Send the email to yourself and open that email, so that the text you sent is quoted.
3. Write something below the quoted section, for example "test2". 
4. If you try to copy only the line with test2, it pastes fine, but if you try to copy that line and also the end of the line with "test" (visually the selection look the same but the mouse is positioned on the quoted line), then nothing happens when you paste. However, I also noticed that if you paste without formatting, then it works.

Recording: http://i.imgur.com/zoHSsIu.gifv

Comment 4

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Clearly a Core::Editor bug. I can reproduce this. You need to select the last line and a bit of the quote/numbered list.

Doing this in a debug version shows:
[5632] WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(tmp) failed: file c:/mozilla-source/comm-central/mozilla/editor/libeditor/HTMLEditorDataTransfer.cpp, line 2183
[5632] WARNING: NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv, rv) failed with result 0x80004005: file c:/mozilla-source/comm-central/mozilla/editor/libeditor/HTMLEditorDataTransfer.cpp, line 224

I tried to reproduce the bug in Firefox using only an editable HTML document, but that doesn't fail.

Needs more investigation.