robotframework / robotframework/RIDE
Copy/pasted text is behaving badly when text is imported from external file to the test documentation field
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enhancement
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- Python
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Description
Originally submitted to Google Code by miskammakela on 20 Mar 2013
- When I copy ascii text from unix type of file, line breaks are not handled properly in RIDE field.
- Spaces are also converted weirdly with backslash+space combination when using similar copy/pasting. -> Wrongly outputted text can be examined in "plain text tab".
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue by copying ASCII text from a Unix-style external file into the test documentation field, then inspect the plain text tab. Trace how pasted line breaks and spaces are converted, and consider the issue done when both are preserved correctly in the resulting text.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- desktop, testing
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100