No Copy/Paste from within Gmail Messages?

[derek]

Say it isn't so!

Please!

Why?!

[trinybwoy]

im experiencing the same problem

[ren857]

just hit "reply" or "forward', select your text, and copy and paste from there.

[AdrianLeon]

This raises an eyebrow to a bigger issue...

Is there any reason why the Android OS only allows a user to copy text that they can edit and not text you would find in an article on a website? Seems so simple can't figure out why they excluded it.

[K.Krstnsn]

i get the option to copy ... but when i go to paste it doesnt paste. it pastes a previous copy.

its clearly a bug... but where to report it? no one can answer that.

[jmejiaa]

I'm pretty sure copying text from a Webkit browser is not possible. Not 100% sure but the crowser gets the pages as one big image and this is why the iphone or the g1 cannot copy from the web.

Maybe the iphone hasnt implement copy paste because they didnt want this mis-match, the browser is one of the main places I would want copy and paste in.

[K.Krstnsn]

Gmail! Not browser! Wtf

[Gary.Lavin]

There is no copy that I can see, even after reply or forward, am I missing something?

[derek]

Honestly, this is a ridiculous limitiation.

Every single blackberry I've had has had copy paste. To have a such a purportedly advanced OS lack this feature is patently offensive.

Can we get engadget or some high profile site to pose this question? I'd love to hear what the official word is.

I love this phone to death, but I with every day that passes I realize that we're more beta testers than end users.

Bah, the curse of the early adopter.

[AdrianLeon]

Honestly, this is a ridiculous limitiation.

Every single blackberry I've had has had copy paste. To have a such a purportedly advanced OS lack this feature is patently offensive.

Can we get engadget or some high profile site to pose this question? I'd love to hear what the official word is.

I love this phone to death, but I with every day that passes I realize that we're more beta testers than end users.

Bah, the curse of the early adopter.

My point exactly; it seems frivilous but it's little things like this that can only augment G1's fan base and lead to longevity. Even with that said, I will continue to be patient.

[androidmonkey]

anyone figure this out yet?

[I Dream In Code]

Found it!

Hold shift, then move your finger over the text you want to copy and it will copy it to the clipboard.

Found this over on Crackberry.com

Seems like google would publish this better. I almost had a panic attack that it wouldn't copy/paste.

[BadBoy]

You can also use Ctrl + C to copy and Ctrl + V to paste.

[jwheel]

Found it!

Hold shift, then move your finger over the text you want to copy and it will copy it to the clipboard.

Found this over on Crackberry.com

Seems like google would publish this better. I almost had a panic attack that it wouldn't copy/paste.

Everyone keeps saying this, but I can not get it to work on mine.

I receive an email (gmail message), in order to get the "shift" key to pop up, I have to hit the "reply" button so I can go into text editing (right?). Once I'm there I hold down my "shift" key (up arrow on the left side of my keypad) and I can do nothing from there, my phone vibrates and that's all.

I gotta be doing something wrong, cuz ppl are getting this to work but I can not. If anyone can give me better detail plz do, it's driving me nuts.

I have a sprint hero, using android 1.6 I believe. Just got the phone a week or so ago and I love it, but this is driving me crazy.

EDIT*** for the record, I can get this to work on any gmail that I might be SENDING to someone, just not on any gmail that I received. ***

[danguyf]

I'm pretty sure copying text from a Webkit browser is not possible. Not 100% sure but the crowser gets the pages as one big image and this is why the iphone or the g1 cannot copy from the web.

Maybe the iphone hasnt implement copy paste because they didnt want this mis-match, the browser is one of the main places I would want copy and paste in.

What in the world are you smoking?! LOL

[1] You can absolutely copy text from a webkit browser.
[2] Safari, the default Mx OS X browser, is webkit, to give just one example.
[3] The browser does NOT get pages as an image.
[4] If it did, how do you think the Android browser would be able to re-display a page when you rotate between landscape and portrait modes without reloading the page?
[5] The Android browser does cut-n-paste. It's the Gmail app that is problematic. (In fact, when I want to cut-n-paste from an email, I just access the web-based Gmail.)

[jwheel]

[5] The Android browser does cut-n-paste. It's the Gmail app that is problematic. (In fact, when I want to cut-n-paste from an email, I just access the web-based Gmail.)

DOH! Good call, I didn't think of doing that. Although that is a pain in the ass IMO, but I guess if I absolutely have to copy/paste from a gmail message, I could access the web-based gmail.

[Iceberg]

The weird thing is guys, on my g1 I SWEAR I got the copy and paste feature to work like the browser does but I never repeated it.