Bug#821845: fails to copy first line of multi-line selection

[Robert Edmonds]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.20.1-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

Since upgrading to gnome-terminal >= 3.20.0-1 and vte2.91 >= 0.44.0-1,
the terminal has started to exhibit an annoying behavior: in the click
and drag selection mode, the first line of a multi-line selection is
replaced with a blank line when pasted.

AFAICT, this happens with the single click selection mode
(character-based), but not with the triple click selection mode
(line-based). But, a workaround in the single click selection mode is to
begin or end the selection by precisely hovering the pointer over the
first character of the selection.

Multi-line selections in the single click selection mode work just fine
with gnome-terminal 3.18.3-1 and vte2.91 0.42.5-1.

I reproduced this in a fresh install of testing with the GNOME task
enabled. Here is a video of the buggy behavior:

https://people.debian.org/~edmonds/bugs/gnome-terminal-copy-paste/2016-04-19T18-45-36-530550000Z.webm

Here is a video of the working behavior, after downgrading
gnome-terminal and vte2.91:

https://people.debian.org/~edmonds/bugs/gnome-terminal-copy-paste/2016-04-19T18-41-40-616923000Z.webm

Thanks!

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds at debian.org