Deltachat-android: Do not truncate copy-pasted text

Created on 9 Jun 2020  路  7Comments  路  Source: deltachat/deltachat-android

To reproduce:

  1. Write a message of Shakespearian length and send it
  2. Oops! Message bounced back undelivered. Must have got the address slightly wrong! Oh well, let's try again. Click the "copy" icon in the message, begin a new message, paste the text
  3. BOOM. The text has been truncated arbitrarily with a "[...]". There is literally no way to get back the second half of the message without resorting to screen-capture and OCR

This is unexpected and seems unnecessary. If copying the text of one's own message is allowed, then that should include copying all of it.

Please fix. Thanks.

Version: 1.8.1

All 7 comments

I face this issue quite often, it is really annoying indeed, forwarding the message is the only workaround, but in my case I don't want to re-send the message but to copy the text to send it somewhere else in other app or to save it to a note, etc. and it is impossible currently without using tricks like forwarding to another address you own and check it with a classic MUA.

A possible workaround would be to limit the amount of characters per message.

I wonder why anyone might want to copy only the first 1000 characters of a message. If @r10s you (or sb else) dont object I'll do a PR tomorrow.

I also wonder if we should remove the

Me:

(or name of whoever sent the message)

from the top of the copied content.

@Hocuri I have referred to the first point, which is:

Write a message of Shakespearian length and send it

Regarding _copying_, I am with you, of course. (I would not like to write a message of Shakespearian length myself...) ;)

actually the messages I have seen truncated were not so long to be considered Shakespearian ;)

right now there aren't a way to reply to a message, so people copy the message, paste it and reply below, so it is useful to have the name on top, but once a way to reply is implemented I very much would like this name to be removed from the top, causes accidents frequently for me ;)

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