Re: [orca-list] Change made to flat review copy/append

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Mostly this is a time limitation on my end. Sorry!
--joanie

On 1/22/20 6:30 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> I've always sort of felt like Orca's way of handling this is a bit off. 
> Is there no way to, say, set a start/end marker and just copy everything 
> between that? I don't think the issue is so much that you'll have 
> newlines in your text, but instead that you have a newline at the end. 
> And for that, I'd simply move flat review to the end of the command I 
> want to copy and set the end marker to not include a newline. Is this 
> implementation due to at-spi limitations? Haven't used NVDA in a while, 
> but definitely miss its way of handling copy-paste, which IIRC is as 
> I've described above.
>
>
> On 1/22/20 5:25 PM, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> > Regarding making all lines of text copy to the clipboard as a single 
> > paragraph, I can see both sides of this. On one hand, text pasted in 
> > this way can be desirable, especially if copying from a text editor 
> > that wraps a paragraph across lines. It would even help in the case of 
> > terminal errors, especially those that don't wrap on word boundaries. 
> > On the other hand, I'm thinking that something like copying a group of 
> > commands and short output could be negatively impacted by this, as the 
> > command and its output would have to be reformatted back to separate 
> > lines again after pasting, correct me if I'm wrong about this. But if 
> > I am right, it isn't at all desirable to have a command, its output 
> > and another command and its output all on one line. This is my take on 
> > it, and of course the real behavior could differ from the way I 
> > imagine it to be as described. The thing is that if I am right, there 
> > are pros and cons to both approaches.
> >
> > Imetumwa kutoka maswali yangu.
> >
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