42108 - CTRL-C fails to copy selected TEXTAREA contents, so CTRL-V pastes LAST clipboard selection

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Using Commercial 6/9 2000060908 on WinNT 4.0 SP4.

To repro:
1) in Nav4 Composer, select some text and choose CTRL-C to make that the
Clipboard contents
2) in any Bugzilla bug Description field, type some random text, select some of
the text, and press CTRL-C
3) position I-bar at end of the text you just typed and press CTRL-C

Expected: text you just selected and copied from within this field should be pasted

Actual: whatever you *last* had on the Clipboard is pasted in because the CTRL-C
clearly didn't succeed

Comment 1

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Nom. nsbeta2, recc. nsbeta2+. This bug renders TEXTAREAs not truly usable as
editing areas. (Frankly it's a dogfood issue as it interferes with my using N6
to edit bugs in Bugzilla.)

Comment 2

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Bug 36615 is marked specific to Viewer URL bar on the Mac but I wonder if it's
related.

Nom. nsbeta2, recc. nsbeta2+. This bug prevents TEXTAREAs from being usable for
editing. (Really it's a dogfood issue in editing Bugzilla Descriptions!)

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This (along with the Windows hotkeys, Ctrl-Ins, Shift-Ins, Shift-Del) seems to
have regressed between the win98 mozilla builds of 06-08 and 06-09.  cc:ing
mjudge (again) since he turned on ender-lite in that time period.

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

I don't see this using today's 61200 verification build.  resolving as wfm, 
please reopen with further info if you still see it.

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

I was testing originally described problem on Win98, other keys not working 
should be in a separate bug.

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I don't see a 6-12 verification build for the trunk - I only see one for the 
M16 branch.  Should this be reopened?

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

darn! I hate it when the current build folder steers me to a branch.  
reopening (and grabbing last M17 build)

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

Sure enough. Copy doesn't work in URL bar either. Looks like a focus problem,
since none of the appropriate commands get enabled in the menu.  Probable dup,
but I didn't see any that matched.  reassigning to saari, nominating for dogfood

Comment 9

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar for beta2 fix. 

Comment 10

[saari (gone)]

I wonder if the fixes mjudge and I are working will fix this.

Comment 11

[saari (gone)]

Yeah, the stuff mjudge, akkana and myself did earlier in the week fixed this. 
It isn't quite fixed the right way yet, but it is fixed.

Comment 12

[John Morrison]

This doesn't fully work, but I've opened bug 42885 for the new failure mode. 

Comment 13

[Kathleen :Brade]

actually I don't think this was fixed for textareas (only input).  I have bug
#42625 which has a patch to really fix this bug.

Comment 14

[John Morrison]

verified fixed -- mac/linux/win32 2000071708 -- (for this particular action; 
there are some other open bugs for different issues (e.g., bug 42885))