Pasting tabs into Excel

Brian Milby brian at milby7.com
Sat Feb 3 17:32:37 EST 2018


http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19206
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20336
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:28 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Brian Milby wrote:
>
>  > More info on those 2 bugs:
>  >
>  > The first bug is about LC placing too much on the system clipboard.
>  >  Prior to 8, LC only put text+RTF on the clipboard.  With 8, HTML was
>  > added - LC ran everything through its internal conversion to LC styled
>  > text and put LC HTMLtext on the system clipboard as HTML.  The bug fix
>  > on the first on stops that conversion so that when plain text is
>  > placed on the clipboard, only plain text is put on the system
>  > clipboard (and it no longer puts anything styled).
>  >
>  > The second bug is tightly related.  It is actually the same process
>  > that is causing the problem, but the solution will be slightly
>  > different.  There isn't a PR on this one yet.  It would be easy to
>  > disable LC HTMLtext going to the clipboard unless specifically
>  > requested (which would be more like pre LC-8), but fixing the actual
>  > HTMLtext is a little more complicated.
>
> I think I missed something earlier in this thread:  what are those two
> bug report IDs?
>
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