During a "copy" operation, a trailing space is dropped

[OldGrantonian]

I have CN 3.11 with Win 10 Pro.

If I double-click on a word, and then extend the highlight to include a trailing space, the space is not persistent during copy.

Example: This is a sentence.

Highlight "This" in the example. Extend the highlight to include the space. Ctrl+C.

Insert cursor immediately after "This". Ctrl+V.

There's still only one space after "ThisThis"

Now insert cursor anywhere within "sentence". Ctrl+V. No space is inserted after "This".

In both of the copy operations, the trailing space has been dropped.

Note that I don't support the M$ method of ADDING an unwanted space after double-clicking. The simple rule should be "What-you-DO-is-what-you-get". So, IMHO, the CN result after double-clicking a word is CORRECT. (And the method used by this forum software is INCORRECT. )

[CintaNotes Developer]

I'm afraid I can't get the same behavior. Could you please elaborate how exactly do you extend the selection? Thanks!

[OldGrantonian]

Could you please elaborate how exactly do you extend the selection?

You must be in a note, and your desired word must have a trailing space.

- Insert your cursor somewhere within the word that you want to copy.
- Double click.

The entire word is selected. The highlight terminates just to the right of the selected word. (IMHO, this is correct behaviour.)

Dragging with a mouse is too tricky for me, because I have shaky hands.

- Press Shift.
- Press Right-arrow once.

The highlight is extended by one character.

- Press Ctrl+C

[gunars]

Yes, I get the same behavior in Win 7 with CN 3.12b1. If I select/copy some text with leading and trailing spaces and then paste it, leading blanks are preserved but trailing blanks are stripped. This is only in the body of a note. It works ok in the title, tag and remark fields.

[CintaNotes Developer]

Hi,
Deeply sorry for unannounced prolonged silence. I'm back now to processing bug reports.
Seems that I still can't reproduce this on Win10. Can this be possibly Win7-specific?
Will check on my Win7 VM and get back here.

[gunars]

Actually, OldGrantonian said he was getting this on Win 10 Pro. I could duplicate it on Win 7.

[CintaNotes Developer]

Oh, my mistake. Indeed he mentioned Win 10 Pro.
Then I'm afraid I'd need the settings file to make sure that my editor configuration is exactly the same.

[gunars]

@OldGrantonian, if you edit your cintanotes.settings file and change "clipping.trimwhitespace = 1" to 0 (zero), it will stop trimming the trailing blanks.

[CintaNotes Developer]

Gunars, that's brilliant! I completely forgot about this setting.

[gunars]

Extended memory

That's the great thing about all of the parameterized settings, that you can customize many small details like this.

[CintaNotes Developer]

Indeed. I like this in other software as well.
Also I think it's great when there are some "advanced" settings, which are not necessary for 95% of users and are hidden by default, but that can make a big difference for 5% who will buy a Lifetime license in exchange

[OldGrantonian]

@OldGrantonian, if you edit your cintanotes.settings file and change "clipping.trimwhitespace = 1" to 0 (zero), it will stop trimming the trailing blanks.

Many thanks for that suggestion.