Dak Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 if using windows and trying to copy/paste long article names (i.e., with linebreaks) into a search box, the search-string terminates at the first line break. i.e., Hello, i am a scientific article. Smith J. copy/paste it, and you'll end up searching for "Hello, i am", which sucks. to fix, in firefox, type about:config into the address bar and hit return, copy/paste editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines into the address bar, right-click on the line that comes up, select change value, and set it to 2. now, you can paste multiple lines into the searchbox. The teminate-at-first-line-break behaviour bugged me so much, and I was so happy when i found this setting, that i figured i'd share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 that's freaking awesome. I can't tell you how many times that has pissed me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GutZ Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Backspace works for me but nice job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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