Convert line endings on paste?

[Brandon Staggs 277]

I am working on a project that involves a lot of documentation pasting and the source is always not CRLF. 

 

Pasting non-CRLF line endings into a Delphi pascal unit, at least in the project, is a sure-fire way to lobotomize LSP.

 

If I close the IDE and re-open it, it automatically converts the line endings to CRLF, and then once saved, LSP behaves again.

 

Is there a way to have the IDE automatically convert line endings on paste? I think the answer is no, but figured I should check.

[Uwe Raabe 2057]

Cannot try in the moment, but perhaps MultiPaste can act as a workaround.

 

Nevertheless, it would make for a good feature request.

[programmerdelphi2k 237]

if does not exists, then just "Copy" to any text-editor like MS Notepad, and later. "Copy/Paste" in your unit Pas!

[Remy Lebeau 1393]

33 minutes ago, Brandon Staggs said:

Is there a way to have the IDE automatically convert line endings on paste?

Not that I'm aware of.  But its funny, because the RTL does have an AdjustLineBreaks() function, so it would have been trivial for the IDE to adjust pasted text to the editor's native format.

[Brandon Staggs 277]

4 minutes ago, programmerdelphi2k said:

if does not exists, then just "Copy" to any text-editor like MS Notepad, and later. "Copy/Paste" in your unit Pas!

Of course, that is a workaround. One that adds another step that I will forget to do because this is the only time I need to do it when copy and pasting.. something I do a lot of... If the source files were not all PDFs I would have converted all of those in the first place.

[Brandon Staggs 277]

I've submitted this as a feature request:

 

https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-41714

[programmerdelphi2k 237]

4 minutes ago, Brandon Staggs said:

If the source files were not all PDFs

You mean open PDF files in the IDE? well, then, I think this is beyond the scope of the IDE, after all third-party applications have adopted their own rules for creating and opening files.
However, in RAD you have the option of "UserInterface->Editor->LineEndings-> ASK" to convert the CRLF when the file is opened, have you tried this route? you may need to add the file extension in "Known extentions"...

[Brandon Staggs 277]

Just now, programmerdelphi2k said:

You mean open PDF files in the IDE? well, then, I think this is beyond the scope of the IDE,

No, why would I want to do that? I am copying and pasting documentation from PDFs into the IDE, ergo my original post about pasting text into the IDE.

[Brandon Staggs 277]

1 minute ago, programmerdelphi2k said:

However, in RAD you have the option of "UserInterface->Editor->LineEndings-> ASK" to convert the CRLF when the file is opened, have you tried this route? you may need to add the file extension in "Known extentions"

This doesn't make any sense. Please see the original post. I am asking about pasted text, not opening text files.

[programmerdelphi2k 237]

ok, you're very nervous!  sorry!

[Brandon Staggs 277]

1 hour ago, programmerdelphi2k said:

ok, you're very nervous!  sorry!

LOL, no, just trying to increase the signal/noise ratio in the thread.

[programmerdelphi2k 237]

1 minute ago, Brandon Staggs said:

LOL, no, just trying to increase the signal/noise ratio in the thread.

😁  mmm, sometimes the "words" say more than itself!  ok, YOU'RE not nervous now!   

[Brandon Staggs 277]

1 minute ago, programmerdelphi2k said:

nervous

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

[programmerdelphi2k 237]

1 minute ago, Brandon Staggs said:

I do not think it means what you think it means.

look your avatar... is nervous or calm down?  

[Brandon Staggs 277]

Just now, programmerdelphi2k said:

look your avatar... is nervous or calm down?  

So, the movie-reference avatar is meant to be funny, not taken seriously. Also, the phrase "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means" is a movie reference as well, meant to lighten the mood of a discussion. Maybe a language barrier on top of cultural references going on here.

[programmerdelphi2k 237]

1 minute ago, Brandon Staggs said:

Maybe a language barrier on top of cultural references going on here.

You're right! I beg your perdon about anything and let's go ahead...

[Brandon Staggs 277]

On 5/17/2023 at 10:49 AM, Uwe Raabe said:

Cannot try in the moment, but perhaps MultiPaste can act as a workaround.

This actually works. It trims each line. And since I am immediately commenting out these lines, I can use Multipaste to do this at the same time. Not that commenting out a block of lines is easier this way, but, it does resolve the original problem. Thanks for the suggestion.