[Opera-users] copy and paste disabled

[Robert Carnegie]

I guess that Opera 5.12 or Opera 5.2 will be "ready when it's ready".
There are evidently some small fixes and some medium-sized new features
(Unicode is arguably a big feature) planned for a future version sometime.
Not necessarily the next one if the feature in question requires further
debugging.

If I'm reading this right then the problem only applies to HTML mail -
mail messages containing HTML tags and MIME-tagged as being HTML content.

Workaround: is it possible to save (export) the whole mail message
to a separate file?  If it's an HTML file then you can use Opera to
open it again, and this time copy text as you please.  Alternatively,
what happens if you reply to a message, converting it to editable text -
can you copy out then?  Then cancel the reply (close without saving).
Worth a try, but I don't have a sample.

Robert Carnegie

>===== Original Message "Rick Reumann" <maillist at reumann.net>
>Subject: Re: [Opera-users] copy and paste disabled
>
>wow. That's a serious bug. Being able to copy text from email
>messages is important.  Any info on when the next version will be out
>that addresses this problem?
>Thanks,
>
>
>On 7 Jun 2001, at 13:07, Larry Washbrook wrote:
>
>> It is a bug in Opera. The following is their reply to my message on
>> the same subject.
>>
>> In Opera 5.11, there is a bug that causes it to print HTML mail (and
>> attached mail) incorrectly. Copying text from HTML mail isn't
>> possible either. We are aware of the problem, and will fix it for the
>> next version of Opera. -- Best regards, Håvard K. Moen Technical
>> Service Consultant Opera Software <www.opera.com>
>>
>>
>> 6/7/2001 9:57:29 AM, Daniel H Hessey <dhh at io.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I am unable to copy from the body of an e-mail I have received.  I am
>> >only able to copy from
>> headers.  I am able to highlight the text I want to copy--but cntrl-C
>> does not copy it. >Any ideas??