[Pidgin] #1865: Copied text has spaces trimmed

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#1865: Copied text has spaces trimmed
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  Reporter:  Kyrra         |       Owner:       
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:       
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0.2
Resolution:                |    Keywords:       
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by rudidude86):

 Replying to [ticket:1865 Kyrra]:
 > If I type "   asdf   " into the input box on the conversation window
 then highlight it all and press ctrl-c to copy, the copy buffer only
 contains "asdf".
 >
 > I don't think it should be up to Pidgin to decide what text I want in my
 copy buffer and it should place the leading/trailing spaces into it.


 I encountered this odd behavior as well (Pidgin 2.1.0 on Windows XP with
 SP2). Any spaces at the beginning or end of text copied from Pidgin's
 conversation window get trimmed off.

 Perhaps this is a GTK issue?

 Granted it doesn't come up that often and it's not terribly important, but
 it's still definitely annoying. It seems like it'd be more work to strip
 out the spaces than just copy what the user highlights directly... why did
 this "feature" ever get added?

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