Package: wl-clipboard Version: 2.1.0-0.1+b1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
ANSI color codes, boldfacing, and various other control codes for linefeeds is being captured literally with wl-copy and faithfully reproduced when pasting. This behaviour deviates from copy/paste using a mouse. If the terminal is showing text that is colored and formatted, and the mouse is used to select a string of text which is then pasted into emacs or a pastebin form, the control characters are stripped out uncolored raw text is pasted. The wl-copy tool should be able to simulate that. This can easily be reproduced using the “script” command to capture a typescript, as follows: $ script $ [do anything arbitrary here, such as “man wl-clipboard”] $ <control-d> $ file typescript typescript: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF, CR, LF line terminators, with escape sequences, with overstriking $ wl-copy -p < typescript When pasting into a place where raw text is expected, control codes appear. Whereas if you use a mouse to do the copy, the paste is raw text. So it would be useful if wl-copy had an option to simulate the mouse action. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages wl-clipboard depends on: ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u7 ii libwayland-client0 1.21.0-1 Versions of packages wl-clipboard recommends: ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1 wl-clipboard suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
