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Bug 37860 - VisualEditor: Cut-n-paste from one window to another loses formatting


Summary:	VisualEditor: Cut-n-paste from one window to another loses formatting

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33105

Product:	VisualEditor
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	ContentEditable (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Christian Williams

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Reported:	2012-06-23 02:35 UTC by Brion Vibber
Modified:	2013-08-08 06:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Description Brion Vibber 2012-06-23 02:35:20 UTC

Tested in Firefox 16 nightly.

Steps to repro:
* go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor:Welcome
* hit 'edit'
* click in, select all, copy to clipboard
* go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor:Blorpo etc
* hit 'edit'
* click in, paste

Expected results:
Beautiful pasted HTML

Actual results:
All formatting lost. Newlines are turned into little newline symbols.

Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2012-06-23 16:58:42 UTC

Same behavior in Firefox 13, Chrome 19, Safari 5.1.7 (though Chrome & Safari don't show the little newline symbols, you just don't get line breaks at all).

This makes common editing tasks like moving text from one page to another impossible, so might want to bump priority up.

Comment 2 Christian Williams 2012-06-29 00:29:51 UTC

This is fixed in:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/13423/

Previously, copied data was stored in a local JS variable. Only copy and paste from within a single document was supported. Now, using localStorage, rich content may be copied from one article to another on the same wiki in the same browser.

Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2012-06-29 17:15:38 UTC

will thst work between wikis?

Comment 4 Keegan Peterzell 2013-06-28 18:33:13 UTC

This bug seems to be occurring again.  Same issue- format loss.

Ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVisualEditor%2FFeedback&diff=561998028&oldid=561996397

Comment 5 James Forrester 2013-07-02 20:07:55 UTC

This was replaced with bug 33105 (general copy-and-paste)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 33105 ***

Comment 6 David Gerard 2013-07-06 20:28:44 UTC

Bug 33105 is *not* general c'n'p, it's only c'n'p from external sources.

Comment 7 James Forrester 2013-07-06 20:49:22 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> Bug 33105 is *not* general c'n'p, it's only c'n'p from external sources.

You're right, sorry, I didn't update the title. Fixed. (Also, another VE instance is definitely an external source.)

Comment 8 Francisco 2013-07-26 13:24:08 UTC

I have to confirm that this bug still occurs on it.wiki.

Comment 9 Andre Klapper 2013-07-26 15:25:58 UTC

Francisco: Exact steps to reproduce highly welcome, so developers can take a look.

Comment 10 Francisco 2013-07-26 15:32:39 UTC

Just copy content from a page (e.g. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire?veaction=edit) and paste in another one (e.g. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom?veaction=edit) :-) all the links, italics, lists etc. are lost.

Comment 11 James Forrester 2013-08-08 06:19:04 UTC

Sorry, not "fixed" but duplicate of bug 33105.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 33105 ***

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