XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-13 19:12, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   I copy paste rich text from Firefox into editors without problems. I do   
   not use Chrome, but I have it installed.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   I pasted an entire web page from Chrome into Kate and LO Write, with no   
   perceived problems.   
      
   --   
   Cheers,   
           Carlos E.R.   
      
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