Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 4951
COPY PASTE of text adds spaces before and after
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:35:44 UTC
When you copy selected text, and paste it back in writer, a space it added at the beginning and the end of the selection. Seems not to be the case with multiple line selections. Adn when pasting after a space, no space is aaded at the beginning. Regards, Kris
Reassigned to Éric.
ES: this is a feature. One assumes that the user who copies a portion of text i.e. 1 word wants to insert it somwehre else as a single portion/word. So blanks are automatcally generated whwn needed. Note this does not happen when pasting at a beginning of a paragraph or when copying a portion of word. ES->CJ: one could add one more option like "Don't use intelligent pasting" ;-)
Reassiged to Bettina.
*** Issue 15806 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Pls. read and test in Issue 15806, there are much more details listed than here. In that issue you will also find an attachment with a testfile for comfortable testing. This behaviour can still be found in 1.1beta2, so changed. I do not think that this has P3, so changed to P4 Concerning Additional Comments From Eric Savary 2002-11-06 23:49 PST: I do not think that it's a real feature: Why does it only happen if you copy from a list? Rainer
It might be a fine feature, but it ssems not to work equal in all OOo versions. I see differences between my test results in issue 15806 and a test with 1.0.3.1. Rainer
I made some further tests with the testfile of issue 15806 and found out for 644M11: As far as I see no longer any differences between "copy from or to lists" and "copy from or to normal text. Things I think that they are not correct: Differences between copy-paste of word "here" of 1. or 2. line: Test 1 Mark "line" of first line with double click <cntrl-c> cursor between 't' and 'e' of "Whatever" <cntrl-v> Result: spaces before and after "here" inserted. Copy - paste word "second" to somewhere at the end of the text Test 2 Mark "line" of second line with double click <cntrl-c> cursor between 't' and 'e' of "Whatever" <cntrl-v> Result: _no_ spaces before and after "here" inserted. What might cause the difference? Unexpected, too: When I try to copy and paste the first word of each line between 't' and 'e' of "Whatever", _no_ spaces will be inserted. Why? Rainer
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In OOo 2.4.1 on Windows Vista Home Premium, both localized in Italian language, the copy and paste feature has too different behaviors that may disorient the end user: a) while copying from two different saved documents, the copy and paste feature inserts no front space if the word is inserted at the beginning of a paragraph; b) while copying from two different saved documents, the copy and paste feature inserts a front space even if the end user has already inserted a manual space, doubling in this way the spaces between words; c) while copying from two different saved documents, the copy and paste feature inserts a front and back space when the copied word is inserted *inside* another word; d) while copying from two new documents that *have not been already saved*, the copy and paste feature inserts *no* space at all. It simply pastes the word where the cursor is. This is really confusing and should be rationalized.
A note about point b) in my previous post. The second space after a manually inserted one is automatically inserted only if the paragraph is "open", this is to say if there is no word or full stop period after the pasted word. This is a misbehavior, IMO, especially when the end user has chosen "Ignore double spaces" among OOo options. Examples of OOo wrong actual behavior: 1) WORD <manually inserted space> <automatically inserted space> PASTED ITEM <*no* period or other word at the end of the sentence> while, correctly, OOo does: 2) WORD <manually inserted space> <*no* aut. inserted space> PASTED ITEM <period> 3) WORD <manually inserted space> <*no* aut. inserted space> PASTED ITEM <automatically inserted space> WORD <period>
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".