Re: Copy/paste & delete bugs


Subject: Re: Copy/paste & delete bugs
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 16 2000 - 18:47:57 CDT


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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Noam Sturmwind wrote:

> I've found two problems with Abiword, one minor and the other more
> serious.
>
> The first relates to GNOME, and it's cross-application copy/paste
> capability. Normally, to copy between applications, one selects the text
> in the source application, then middle-clicks in the destination
> application to paste. However, when this is done from Abiword, a newline
> is always inserted at the end of the pasted selection, even if the
> original selection did not include a newline.

I am unable to duplicate this bug in current CVS copies of AbiWord.

>
> The second problem relates to deleting text from Abiword. When the last
> few lines of a document (doesn't seem to do this with just the last line)
> are selected and the delete key pressed, the lines are deleted on-screen
> as normal, then Abiword immediately crashes with a segmentation fault. I
> have a number of documents so far that exibit this behaviour; not all
> documents cause it.

I also can't make this bug reappear. If you send me one of the offending
documents, I'll check it out.

Thanks.
           
                                     sam th
                                     sam@uchicago.edu
                                http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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