48172 - corrupted text after select and insert the HTML-text from source-code view

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 30462

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Alexander Schilling]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i686; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000807
BuildID:    M17

After copy an HTML-text from the source code view I got:

html head link rel"stylesheet" href"base.css" type"text/css" script
language"JavaScript" src"base.js" type"text/javascript"script script
language"JavaScript"<!-- $winoptions =
'alwaysRaised,status,height=200,width=300'; //-->script head

All newlines, '<', '>' and '=' characters are missing from the tags.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Menu: View - Page Source
2.select a part of the html code
3.insert it in another window (i.e. emacs) by pressing the middle mouse button there

Actual Results:  I got the following corrupted result in emacs or any other textbox:

html head link rel"stylesheet" href"base.css" type"text/css" script
language"JavaScript" src"base.js" type"text/javascript"script script
language"JavaScript"<!-- $winoptions =
'alwaysRaised,status,height=200,width=300'; //-->script head

Expected Results:  I would to have the html code like shown in the source code view

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

duplicate of bug 30462 "Edit->Copy for message->view source operations removes
line breaks" by way of dup bug 30996 "copying in 'view source' copies neither
<CRLF> nor HTML tags"

30462 is marked verified fixed on July 5th. Adding comment there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30462 ***

Comment 2

[Rann Bar-On]

verf dupe