fix for #2574

src/static/css/iframe_editor.css

@@ -98,7 +98,18 @@ body.grayedout { background-color: #eee !important }
 }
 
 body.doesWrap {
-  white-space: pre-wrap; /*Must be pre-wrap to keep trailing spaces. Otherwise you get a zombie caret, walking around your screen (see #1766), WARNING: Enabling this causes Paste as plain text in Chrome to remove line breaks, this is probably undesirable */
+  /* white-space: pre-wrap; */
+
+  /* 
+    Must be pre-wrap to keep trailing spaces. Otherwise you get a zombie caret, 
+    walking around your screen (see #1766).
+    WARNING: Enabling this causes Paste as plain text in Chrome to remove line breaks
+    this is probably undesirable 
+    WARNING: This causes copy & paste events to lose bold etc. attributes
+    NOTE: The walking-zombie caret issue seems to have been fixed in FF upstream
+    so let's try diabling pre-wrap and see how we get on now.
+    For more details see: https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/2574
+  */
   word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for issue #1648 - firefox not wrapping long lines (without spaces) correctly */
 }
 

src/static/js/ace2_inner.js

@@ -608,8 +608,11 @@ function Ace2Inner(){
 
     // Chrome can't handle the truth..  If CSS rule white-space:pre-wrap
     // is true then any paste event will insert two lines..
+    // Sadly this will mean you get a walking Caret in Chrome when clicking on a URL
+    // So this has to be set to pre-wrap ;(
+    // We need to file a bug w/ the Chromium team.
     if(browser.chrome){
-      $("#innerdocbody").css({"white-space":"normal"});
+      $("#innerdocbody").css({"white-space":"pre-wrap"});
     }
 
   }