XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Carlos E. R. wrote:   
   >> I do a lot of research as I generally invest at least an hour or two into   
   >> many of my Usenet opening posts, where I currently employ a thousand-line   
   >> Windows Notepad++ macro that beautifully cleans up non-ASCII garbage copied   
   >> from both Firefox and Chromium web output, where, only with Chromium pastes   
   >> into Notepad++ was the selection mechanism (i.e., Ctrl+A) inoperative.   
   >   
   > How do you propose we test this in Linux? There is no notepad++.   
      
   Hi Carlos,   
      
   Thanks for asking, where I'll propose a test for Linux later, but first I   
   need you to understand that the problem exists across all platforms   
   (AFAIK).   
      
   Reacting to a perceived incredularity on your part, I simply ask (a bit   
   snarkily in jest so as to bring the conversation back to where it belongs),   
   are we really prepared to claim that Linux users, who are those same people   
   who have approximately seventeen text editors installed before breakfast,   
   have never once copied any text from Firefox or Chromium and pasted it into   
   vi, vim, GVim, Kate, gedit, or any of the other editors that have existed   
   since the Pleistocene?   
      
   Because the absence of native Notepad++ on Linux doesn't magically prevent   
   clipboard testing. The clipboard exists. Chromium exists. Firefox exists.   
   Editors exist.   
      
   The only missing ingredient would be the willingness to actually try it.   
      
   If the question is whether the Chromium HTML-Fragment/StartHTML clipboard   
   quirk shows up on Linux, the answer depends entirely on whether the editor   
   in question reacts to the presence of HTML on the clipboard.   
      
   Some may. Some may not. That's the whole point of the PSA!   
      
   To warn others that the behavior comes from the browser's clipboard   
   serialization, not from Windows, Notepad++, or any single platform.   
      
   So yes, of course this can be tested on Linux. It always could.   
      
   The prerequisite is acknowledging that "Notepad++ doesn't run on Linux" is   
   not the airtight argument all the follow on posters seem to believe.   
   --   
   When people throw obstacles into the path of testing, it means that they   
   never understood the premise in the first place, as it can be tested.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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