86208 - Copy & paste removes space indentation

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69024

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Richard Donkin]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2001060703

Copying and pasting a line of text that has leading spaces as indentation 
results in the leading spaces being lost on paste.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/RichardsPage
2. Hit the Edit link at bottom of page
3. Log on as user TWikiGuest, password guest
4. As directed on page, copy (say) the line that says '   * Bullet 1'
5. Paste this further down the page on a blank line.

Actual Results:  '* Bullet 1' is pasted, i.e. 3 leading spaces are removed.

Expected Results:  '   * Bullet 1' is pasted.

Also happens on multi-line copy/paste.

This is quite annoying for users of TWiki and other Wiki sites, since 
indentation is often used to carry formatting info - e.g. in this example the 
spaces must be typed in again to regain bullet list formatting.

Comment 1

[doctor__j]

Probably a dupe of bug 80835.

Comment 2

[Richard Donkin]

Agreed, this looks like a dupe of bug 80835.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, dup of an even older bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69024 ***

Comment 4

[sujay]

verified.