XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.sys.mac.system   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Carlos E. R. wrote:   
   >> Do you think you might be able to reproduce his tests on your Linux box?   
   >   
   > I already tested and found no bug. I don't see what else you want to find   
   out.   
      
   Hi Carlos,   
      
   I wish to thank you for your kind and helpful assistance, along that of   
   others like Lawrence who ran the definitive test procedure that I am only   
   slowly beginning to understand the sheer brilliant elegance of.   
      
   Regarding ONLY your comment:   
    "I already tested and found no bug."   
   I don't think anyone suggested there was a bug, where we're all simply   
   openly and honestly discussing a, oh, shall we say, "quirk" in the system.   
      
   Regarding your honest and kind question of where else you can help out:   
    "I don't see what else you want to find out."   
   I think we have it all at this point, so there may be nothing more to do.   
      
   i. There is no bug.   
   ii. It's just the way it works.   
   iii. And, this PSA is posted to inform people what to watch out for.   
      
   If this "quirk" never bites you, then you never needed this PSA at all.   
   However, it bit me because I solve every problem (if I can) that comes up.   
      
   And what "came up" was when I pasted Chromium text into Notepad, often I   
   couldn't 'select' the text to convert it, which boggled my mind at first.   
      
   I looked for hidden characters, but there are none.   
   The text looks normal.   
      
   Take two notepad++ sessions, and look at them in a hex editor.   
   Neither looks different.   
      
   Yet one won't select (control+A).   
   The other will.   
      
   Huh?   
   WTF?   
      
   So it bit me bad.   
   Hours (and hours) of debugging.   
      
   As we all know now, the problem isn't the $EDITOR.   
   And, in a way, there is no "problem".   
      
   The problem is only if we run into this in the future, we will be armed   
   with the answer so we won't waste time tracking it down like I did.   
      
   Many thanks go to you, Carlos, Lawrence and Paul, all of whom openly and   
   honestly discussed the technical issues to the best of their abilities.   
      
   All of you know far more than I do about this stuff, particularly on Linux,   
   so I think we formed an ad hoc well-honed team to validate the PSA with one   
   VERY IMPORTANT correction given I was unaware of Lawrence's test in the OP.   
      
   Lawrence helpfully showed that both Firefox and Chromium do this.   
   It's just that Chromium does it differently.   
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