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Bug 420360

Summary:

Copy to clipboard on Linux does't retain syntax highlighting (RTF)

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Jörg von Frantzius <jfrantzius>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED NOT_ECLIPSE

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, ericwill, piotr.findeisen

Version:

4.3

Keywords:

triaged

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Example with pasted colors	none

Description Jörg von Frantzius

2013-10-25 05:47:50 EDT

Copying of Java code to the clipboard on Linux does not retain syntax highlighting. It would be great to have it on Linux as well (it does work on Windows).

This is not bug#64498, i.e. there is no collapsed folding section.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2013-10-25 05:57:41 EDT

(In reply to Jörg von  Frantzius from comment #0)
> Copying of Java code to the clipboard on Linux does not retain syntax
> highlighting. It would be great to have it on Linux as well (it does work on
> Windows).

It also works on Linux if you use an editor that's capable of RTF. See attached example.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2013-10-25 05:59:20 EDT

Created attachment 236880 [details]
Example with pasted colors

Comment 3 Jörg von Frantzius

2013-10-25 06:50:20 EDT

Interesting, when I paste to LibreOffice it does work for me as well, but not in the Thunderbird email editor. When I then copy the same code snippet from LibreOffice Writer and paste it into Thunderbird, the formatting is retained. Unfortunately, the intendation gets lost when doing so.

The exact same behaviour shows with the GMail editor in the browser (Chrome, in my case): no RTF when pasting directly from Eclipse, lost indentation when pasting via LibreOffice.

Would it be possible to have both formatting and indentation retained when pasting to Thunderbird and Gmail?

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2013-10-25 06:57:04 EDT

(In reply to Jörg von  Frantzius from comment #3)
> Interesting, when I paste to LibreOffice it does work for me as well, but
> not in the Thunderbird email editor. When I then copy the same code snippet
> from LibreOffice Writer and paste it into Thunderbird, the formatting is
> retained. Unfortunately, the intendation gets lost when doing so.
> 
> The exact same behaviour shows with the GMail editor in the browser (Chrome,
> in my case): no RTF when pasting directly from Eclipse, lost indentation
> when pasting via LibreOffice.
> 
> Would it be possible to have both formatting and indentation retained when
> pasting to Thunderbird and Gmail?

Sorry, but this rather indicates that they don't accept plain RTF. Forwarding to SWT for final comment.

Comment 5 Eric Williams

2018-12-14 14:05:02 EST

I think is more an issue with the client receiving the text, since LibreOffice receives it just fine -- sounds like Thunderbird and GMail don't accept RTF. From our end there isn't much we can do about that.