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Disable VE's colon shortcut for blockquotes
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Colon creates a blockquote, which may be disturbing for people who need to start a conversation with a colon (to add a smiley for example).

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This is an intentional feature in VisualEditor, and can be 'fixed' by undoing (but this is another place where the work to isolate commands will stop this happening).

This is an intentional feature in VisualEditor, and can be 'fixed' by undoing (but this is another place where the work to isolate commands will stop this happening).

It is not really intuitive.

Catrope renamed this task from On WYSIWYG, type a colon creates a blockquote instead of a colon to Disable VE's colon shortcut for blockquotes.Aug 5 2015, 11:53 PM
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