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Bug 1212771
Opened 9 years ago
Updated 6 years ago
Composer inserts unwanted newline characters
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
UNCONFIRMED
People
(Reporter: friedemann.seebass, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38
Build ID: 20150923195647
Steps to reproduce:
I've created the following single-line HTML file with the Composer of a newly installed Seamonkey 2.38 on Windows 7, 64 bit:
"Copyright 2015 by SpaceControl GmbH"
"SpaceControl" has a link to our homepage. In the "<HTML> Source" tab the file looks like this therefore:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
Copyright 2015 by <a href="http://www.spacecontrol.de/gb">SpaceControl
GmbH</a>
</body>
</html>
Actual results:
Each time when I modify the document in the HTML source tab (does not matter where the change is made) and save it, a new line is inserted between the words "SpaceControl" and "GmbH".
Strange: The problem is gone if I do one of the following changes:
- replace "2015" by "2"
- replace "Copyright" by "Copyri"
- replace "by" by "b"
- replace "/gb" by "/g"
May be other changes do the same.
Expected results:
There should be no new lines inserted when changing the document in Composer's HTML source tab.
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Comment 1•9 years ago
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Effect is REPRODUCIBLE with en-US (German language pack) SeaMonkey 2.38 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build 20150923195647 (Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit Some more research required @reporter: a) did you already check for DUPlicates? b) is this problem new for you with 2.38 or already reproducible with older versions?
Flags: needinfo?(friedemann.seebass)
OS: Unspecified → Windows
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Comment 2•9 years ago
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Thank you for the quick response! a) Yes, but I haven't found other bug reports describing the same problem. b) I have observed the problem of inserting unwanted new lines in large documents for years. There seems to be a similar problem in list elements and headers, but I could not cook this down to a minimal HTLM file yet. See the source of this document for example: http://manualsp.linux16.webhome.at/manual_en.html. (Now and then we have to delete the growing number of new lines by hand therein.) By chance I've seen the problem again in a newly created small file and have been able to report the bug in a manner one can hopefully work with.
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Comment 3•8 years ago
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Are there any news concerning this bug?
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Comment 4•8 years ago
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I wonder whether this one might be related to "Bug 825601 - randomly adding spaces in Chinese text"
See Also: → 825601
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Comment 5•8 years ago
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The unwanted newlines can be seen only in the HTML view, but not when viewing the document in Composer's normal view or in a browser. The unwanted spaces described in Bug 825601 appear in the browser as well as far as I understand it - this is even worse of course. But yes, there seems to be some similarity I think; both kind of insertions happen at the places where Composer's HTML view word-wraps the text. (The problem still persists with version 2.39.)
Flags: needinfo?(friedemann.seebass)
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Comment 6•8 years ago
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I just tried your suggestion with 'about:config → editor.prettyprint' set to 'false' given in Bug 825601: In my document newlines are inserted not between "SpaceControl" and "GmbH" any longer but before and after the line with the <title> tag now. I. e. not only one unwanted newline but even two on each save. This is not an improvement ...
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Comment 7•6 years ago
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The problem is still present in 2.49.4 on Windows 10. I never noticed until now. When saving an updated file to a local Git repository with File->SaveAs the new version gets extra blank lines inserted, showing up when doing "git diff". The updated file renders correctly but the bogus lines are annoying when working with Git.
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