Re: pgAdmin III 1.12 strange behaviour in text editing

Le 05/10/2010 11:32, Mauro Bertoli a écrit :
>> Da: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
>> A: Mauro Bertoli <bertoli(dot)mauro(at)yahoo(dot)it>
>> Cc: pgadmin-support <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>> Inviato: Mar 5 ottobre 2010, 09:50:19
>> Oggetto: Re: [pgadmin-support] pgAdmin III 1.12 strange behaviour in text
>> editing
>>
>> Le 03/10/2010 19:16, Mauro Bertoli a écrit :
>>> Hi, the steps to reproduced the problem (that I think it is a dis-liked
>>> behaviour):
>>> If I select a portion of text and then press CTRL+C (copy) and then press
>> CTRL+V
>>
>>> (paste) it will paste full cell text wrapped around a double quotes, but I
>>> expect that paste the text I selected. If I right-click "copy" then "paste"
>> it
>>
>>> work fine.
>>
>> There is a reason for that. Not sure everyone will see that as a good
>> reason, and I'm open to suggestion for enhancing it.
>>
>> When you click on a cell and do Ctrl-C, you're in row copy mode. So you
>> get something like the CSV copy mode with double quotes for text values
>> and semi-colon between each cells (if you selected more than one cell).
>> You can change the double quotes and semi-colons with the options dialog
>> ("Query Tool" tab, "Result copy quote character" and "Result copy field
>> separator" fields).
>>
>> When you edit a cell and do Ctrl-C, you're in text copy mode, so you get
>> the precise text (I mean, without quotes)... but you can't copy multiple
>> cells this way.
>
>
> I think that there is a bug, because if I edit a cell (inside the cell, not in
> row copy mode) and press CTRL+C it wrap with double quotes.
> I think that if I select a cell (but I'm non inside the cell editing it) and
> press CTRL+C is usefull that wrap with double quotes, like csv. But if I select
> a portion of text and press CTRL+C, I expect that it copy the real text I
> selected.
>

Finally I found some time (and motivation) to work on this. So, it's
fixed. Should be available in 1.12.3.

Thanks for your report.

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