Re: [orca-list] Can we prepend, not prepend and append, newlines when a line is added to the clipboard?

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

OK, done I hope. Ugh, GitLab needs a web accessibility person on staff.

On 2/18/20 2:43 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> How about this:
>
> orca/src/orca/script_utilities.py has the following method: 
> _appendTextToClipboardCallback()
>
> Please play with it until it does what you want with respect to 
> spaces. Then open a merge request in Gitlab with a patch with the 
> desired changes. If it's sane I'll commit and and you'll be happy. 
> Deal? :)
>
> --joanie
>
> On 2/18/20 21:02, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> > Sorry, I know we kicked this around a while back, but it really is 
> > becoming a pain point. I can't copy-paste text into bug reports 
> > because Orca now puts it all on a single line, so I have to manually 
> > go back through and break up the lines. Ideally we can switch to 
> > using start/end markers one day, but until then, can we please only 
> > prepend a new line, rather than prepending and appending one, when 
> > text is appended to the clipboard? That should eliminate the final 
> > newline, while still supporting the use case of copy-pasting text 
> > into bug reports and not having to break up 20 lines of backtrace. :)
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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