75345 - Non-mouse selection of text doesn't copy to clipboard

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew Cline]

Build 2001040910, Linux 2.4.3-ac3 i686, RedHat 6.1, XFree86 4.0.2

If I I use the shift key plus the arrow/home/end/page-up/page-down
keys to select text in the URL bar, a text field, or a text area,
the selection doesn't go into the clipboard; however, if I use the
mouse to highlight the same selection of text, it does go into the
clipboard.

Comment 1

[kinmoz]

Cc akkana, we probably need to add some mechanism that calls into the copy code 
from the caret/selection navigation code. Note that this copy mechanism needs to 
use a timer to avoid excessive copying when continuously arrowing down.

Comment 2

[rubydoo123]

this must be a linux only issue, select and copy/paste on win32 and Mac works
correctly

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

adding Kin to cc list -- Kin can you try this out on Linux and see if you can 
come up with any ideas as to why this is happening

Comment 4

[Joseph "What is reality?" Brenner]

I've seen the same behavior in the mail display window.  I can select text with
a mouse, 
and then yank it into an emacs, but if I select all the text with a Cntrl-A it
doesn't work.  
(I'm also using Linux, the RedHat 6.2 distribution). 

Comment 5

[Elmar Ludwig]

I assume this bug is about the primary selection, not the X11 clipboard
(which is independend of the selection until you issue a copy command).

See also bug #70519 for more info on this issue.

Duplicate?

Comment 6

[Akkana Peck]

Yes, primary.  At least, I'm not the submitter, but as a longtime X user I find
the current behavior surprising and would expect these selections to be
autocopied to primary.  Not sure if it's a dup of bug 70519 or not; my first
guess is that these are two different patches of code in unrelated places which
both need to be changed to do the autocopy properly.  (Selection extension is in
the Frame code somewhere, while I suspect SelectAll might be somewhere else,
maybe doc shell?)  They might need the same fix, but in two different places.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 110245 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 9

[Matthew Cline]

This bug is fixed as of build 2001120308; in fact, it's been fixed for a week
or so.