Bug#480411: gedit does not convert line endings to/from clipboard

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 480411 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445895
thanks

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 21:44 +0100, Ximin Luo wrote:
> gedit can open CRLF and LF files and display them identically.
> however, copying text from one to the other 
> retains the line endings of the original, even when the file is saved.
> 
> i suggest that upon pasting, gedit automatically converts the line
> endings to that of the rest of the document.
> 
> i also suggest this behaviour be triggered, when the file is saved
> too.
> 
> (geany does the above; haven't tested this for other editors such as
> nano.)

Hi,

gedit does have a few problems with line endings, I have added a comment
to the upstream bug about this problem.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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