Gramps can trim out white space too aggressively when pasting from the OS clipboard.
The linefeed, carriage return and/or tab are the specific “trims” that are hindering my workflow.
When scraping data with copy’n’paste, multiline data simply drops the breaks and runs the data together. Then the interface loses word separation between data elements. It would be better if each whitespace character was converted to a space and the multiple spaces were consolidated.
e.g., “10 May 1999␍Austin, TX, USA” becomes “10 May 1999Austin, TX, USA” when pasted into the date field. Which makes it harder to re-select just the place portion (So you can cut or delete.) The problem is amplified when the clipboard contains the multi‐line data such as “Name␍birthdate␍birthplace␍deathdate␍burialplace␍burial enclosing place”
Pasting into the Note Editor preserves some of these print control characters.
So what kind of issue report is this?