after the upgrade to precise - when pasting into mcedit - new lines are many times not pasted - all text in one line

[Ivan Ivanov]

My ubuntu release:
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
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I use Kubuntu.

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apt-cache policy mc
mc:
  Installed: 3:4.8.1-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3:4.8.1-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3:4.8.1-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.linux-bg.org/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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I use mcedit as my favourite editor.

mcedit is part of the mc package.

I tried pasting into mc some text copied from kate with new lines.

For example:
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<email address hidden>

DISPLAY=:0.0

# m h dom mon dow command
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All the lines are now made into 1 in mcedit:
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<email address hidden>=:0.0# m h dom mon dow command
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I tried copying from konsole, kate - same result.

When pasting into kate - all is ok.

So it is clearly a mcedit bug...

my settings ins mcedit are

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: mc 3:4.8.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic-pae 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 14 18:08:49 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ivan Ivanov (ivan-lz)]

workaround - right click and choose paste from the menu.

if right click does not work - hold shift and then right click...

a nice take away is that shift + left clicking allows me to select and copy paste text in konsole and guake !

no more f3 to begin selection and f3 to end it and then f5 to paste... not that it was bad... i may still use it..

[Ivan Ivanov (ivan-lz)]

strange note - if I create a new linux user test124 and try editing a file with mcedit - the paste works ok...

same text pasted whille I am using the non-test user does not work in mcedit...

[Ivan Ivanov (ivan-lz)]

anyways discussing with the mc team now.

note: Newlines are converted to spaces.

[Ivan Ivanov (ivan-lz)]

here is a workaround - compile mc by using --without-x in the ./configure script

here is a bug report from the mc project's own bugtracker - I am giving the link to the comment with the fix:
https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/1736#comment:2

This bug seems like affecting only me so solving it with a workaround should be enough.

If someone needs this fixed - report it upstream to https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/1736 - use the search system first ! to find relevant bugs.

closing this here in next comment.