Re: BUG report

[Paweł Sałek <pawsa0 gmail com>]

On 03/06/2010 04:43:03 PM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> Am 06.03.10 13:22 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> > > The attached patch does not omit the citation prefix from the  
> > > buffer, but displays it in a /very/ small (invisible) size.  Works  
> > > now with Emacs, gedit and OpenOffice.  Setting the size to 0.0  
> > > doesn't work, btw - then all cited stuff disappears.
> >
> > OK--highlight, copy, and paste gets the highlighted text plus the  
> > quoting '>' characters--but also pastes far more text than I  
> > highlighted!  I seem to get first the highlighted text, then the  
> > remainder of the message, then random parts of the message, some  
> > several times.  I backed out the patch and the misbehavior went  
> > away, so it's somehow related--no idea how!
>
> Ooops - stupid bug, a fixed refactored patch attached.
>
> I also fixed disappearing lines, containing only a citation prefix.   
> Actually, they are still there, just at 0.01 pts height...  My  
> proposed solution is to append a zero-width space.  However, the  
> drawback now is that copy'n'paste works to gedit and Openoffice, but  
> xemacs doesn't recognise the zero-width space and displays crap  
> instead.  Vim, otoh, recognises them, so I think we can live with  
> that.  Opinions?

Strangely, emacs appears to be able to deal with it.

I suggest we merge the patch...

Pawel