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Maniphest T142011

Clicking escape after switching from wikitext to visual editor mode will hide the draft
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Reproduce:

  • Draft a post in wikitext mode (either new topic, or reply to existing)
  • Click the mode-switch button. [Don't make any changes.]
  • Press [Esc] key.

Expected:

  • The "confirm discard" window should open ("Are you sure? Are you sure you want to cancel without saving first?")

Current:

  • The draft vanishes from view, making me think I've lost everything.
    • (If I click the text-field ("Start new topic" or "Reply to foo"), the draft reappears. But a frustrated user might not realize this.)

Confirmed in Firefox 47. Bug pointed out in https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:T8r9s0quuoh5px0h&topic_showPostId=t8xyarrh02p072cg#flow-post-t8xyarrh02p072cg

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Quiddity created this task.Aug 3 2016, 5:14 PM
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• Mattflaschen-WMF mentioned this in T185891: Clicking on 'Esc' key discards new discussion being created without user consent.Jan 30 2018, 6:42 PM
Kaartic subscribed.Jan 31 2018, 6:06 AM

(If I click the text-field ("Start new topic" or "Reply to foo"), the draft reappears. But a frustrated user might not realize this.)

That's surprising. I might not have filed T185891 in case that was true. For me tapping on the text-field shows the draft momentarily and it then disappears so I do lose what I type when I hit the 'Esc' key.

Aklapper edited projects, added: Growth-Team; removed: Collaboration-Team-Triage.Oct 12 2019, 4:08 AM
MBinder_WMF added a project: Growth-Team-Filtering.Apr 15 2021, 6:59 PM
Urbanecm_WMF removed projects: Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team.Oct 27 2025, 11:56 PM
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