On 06/27/2018 09:47 AM, Beartooth wrote:
If I highlight a URL which my mailer (Alpine) breaks into several
lines and then paste it in, Ffx takes care of the nonce line breaks,
going right to the site. But if I copy that URL (sometimes, as with
changing an xfinity password, many seeming lines long) into any other
browser, *I* have to eliminate all the line breaks (and sometimes, not
always, introduced extraneous characters such as % a/o angle brackets).
Might not this virtue be grafted into Fedora's versions of other
browsers, or into Fedora itself?
This is a feature that would be specific to the application being pasted
into. Firefox knows that a newline is not useful in a pasted url, so it
helpfully removes them. However, if you were copying into a document,
you would not want newlines automatically removed from what you are
copying. If you want this feature in other browsers, you will need to
file a request on the upstream projects.
I assume also that your mailer is not detecting URLs, so you might file
a request there as well. But it is possibly the sending system that is
putting the newlines in the message in which case your mailer would not
be able to properly detect the URL anyway.