Copy/Paste Long URLs
Sometimes when you get e-mails with long URLs in them from Outlook people, they show up broken like so:
http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/101_things_that_the_mozilla_browser
_can_do_that_ie_cannot.html
This is because Outlook wraps URLs longer than 72 characters, whereas Mozilla Mail does not :) To visit the above link, you'd have to manually rebuild the full url using copy/paste several times. If you copy/pasted both lines into the address bar, everything after the first line break would be stripped, so you'd have to go back and copy/paste each line of the url.
By adding this line,
user_pref("editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines", 3);
to your user.js file for Mozilla or Phoenix, all line breaks will be stripped out when you paste into the address bar.
Now if you tried copy/pasting the above URL, line breaks and all, the full URL appears with the line breaks stripped out. No more rebuilding long URLs.
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Comments
Excellent tip, thanks!
Is there any good reason not to set this as the default behaviour?
What are the results for values other than 3?
The other options for Newline paste behavior are:
0 = paste unchanged,
1 = paste only first line,
2 = replace with spaces,
3 = strip newlines
Yep, 3 should definitely be the default behaviour!
Err... Correction: the lines after the break are not stripped - the get wrapped! So just go to the end of a line and hit Delete. But the tip is of course great!
Blogzilla lives! and what a great tip, thanks!!
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