#688 Paste Column affects the trailing line

[Amiga Lemming]

I have this text

aaa
aaa
aaa

and mark all three lines, copy them with CTRL+C.

I have this target text

abcdefg
abcdefg

and insert the first block at horizontal position 3 with Paste Column (CTRL+SHIFT+V).
I obtain:

abcdefg
  aaa
  aaa
  aaa
ab   cdefg

Is this intended? I expect that the last line is not altered.

[Chris Sorenson]

Add a carriage return to the third line, then copy the three lines AND the fourth line. Place the cursor at the beginning of the second line and ctrl-v and it works as you expect (you don't need to shift-ctrl-v).

[Amiga Lemming]

You are right. The example was not good. But if you imagine it would be a good example, the effect would still be that a trailing line is affected that should not be affected in my opinion.

[Amiga Lemming]

Better example:

Insert

aaa
aaa
aaa

columnar into

abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh

you obtain:

abcdefgh
abaaacdefgh
abaaacdefgh
abaaacdefgh
ab   cdefgh
abcdefgh

[Evan Teran]

@Amiga Do you know if this is with Nedit6 or the classic branch?

[Amiga Lemming]

$ nedit -version
NEdit 5.7
Jan 14, 2017

     Built on: Linux, x86-64, GNU C
     Built at: Jan 17 2021, 02:16:15
   With Motif: (Untested) 2.3.8 [@(#)Motif Version 2.3.8]
Running Motif: 2.3 [unknown]
       Server: The X.Org Foundation 12010000
       Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x21, Default)
       Locale: de_DE

[Chris Sorenson]

That's funny, this is what I get with locale en_US.UTR-8:

abcdefgh
abaaa
aaa
aaacdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh

[Amiga Lemming]

That's normal Paste (without SHIFT), right?

[Chris Sorenson]

Oops sorry I forgot about the shift!

If I do ctrl-shift-v it works correctly:

abcdefg
abaaacdefg
abaaacdefg
abaaacdefg
abcdefg