micro-editor / micro-editor/micro
Text copy inexplicably fails on some text
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Description
Description of the problem or steps to reproduce
micro consistently fails to copy the same text spans out of a buffer. This appears consistently to happen when there are blank lines involved. No single copy attempt failed so far if I copy text w/o any blank lines in it, or with a single trailing one.
But all attempts to copy text with blank lines in between result in no copy being made. The clipboard option was set to terminal. This forces me to copy text fragments one by one skipping over any blank lines and to insert them manually later.
Specifications
Commit hash: b9763856.
OS: local (SSH) — Windows 10, remote — CentOS 7.
Terminal: local (SSH) — PowerShell 7.2.2 in Windows Terminal 1.12.220208003-release1.12, remote — tried both bash and PowerShell 7.2.3.
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure in micro using the terminal clipboard option, selecting text that contains blank lines, preferably with the reported SSH setup and commit b9763856. Done means text spans containing blank lines copy successfully instead of producing no clipboard content.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100