If you press space before pasting or if you paste is after typing a text, it does not work.
It doesn't happen every time. Copy any other kind of link has a different behavior (T135621).
| Subject | Author | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add <BDI> support | Esanders | VisualEditor/VisualEditor | master | +79 -0 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T135126 Copy/pasting links on Flow has multiple unexpected behaviors | |||
| Resolved | Esanders | T135620 VE won't recognise <bdi> tags on paste |
User links aren't copying because they are wrapped in BDI tags which VE doesn't know about.
With this fix the pasted wikitext will be [[User:Name|<bdi>Name</bdi>]] which is technically correct - however if we want to avoid this then Flow should replace the <bdi> tags with <span> tags and attach the bdi behaviour via a class.
That isn't always possible (you'd think that there would be a perfect CSS equivalent to <bdi>'s behavior, but there isn't), but we can see if it can be done in this case.
Checked in betalabs (just in case) - copying username from Flow - e.g. [[User:ET80|<bdi>ET80</bdi>]]