89036 - unnecessary newlines appended to selection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55661

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[nyh]

Sometimes when I select some text in the browser with the mouse, and paste it in
another window (e.g., xterm), two newlines are appended to the end of text (even
if I just select a single word, which should not have any newline at all).

For example, browse to http://www.orbz.org, select any word (or part of a word),
and paste it in an xterm window. You'll see two newlines appended to it. It's
very annoying.

Strangely, it only happens in some pages - browsing http://www.mozilla.org I
can't seem recreate the problem. Could it be the fact that www.orbz.org has a
PRE tag, and the bug is somehow related to text in a PRE?

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It is in fact the <pre> tag's fault.  Duplicate of "cut & paste from <pre>
always adds <newline> at the end of pasted text"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55561 ***

Comment 2

[Phil Pishioneri]

Should be duplicate of 55661, not 55561?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Indeed.  Typo on my part....

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

darn... reopening

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

re-resolving

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55661 ***