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Visual Editor messes up paragraphs when switching between source and visual
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When editing text in source mode and then switching to visual, VE messes up newlines by replacing Wikitext paragraph breaks (double newline \n\n, which separates paragraphs) with double ↵ character which does not separate paragraphs. This of course breaks all formatting since paragraphs are gone and replaced with one huge paragraph peppered with ↵↵. Moreover, somehow when saving it, HTML is also displayed without paragraphs, even though source looks exactly the same.

It is a bit hard to reproduce on isolated example but happens to me a lot when I edit pages combining VE and source editing and copy stuff from external sources.

Seems a bit similar to T50290 but different since it's double newline and VE messes up correctly formatted text.

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Smalyshev created this task.Jul 27 2018, 8:25 PM
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Deskana changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Jul 31 2018, 6:56 PM
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I can't reproduce this problem. I made a page with this source text in the 2010 wikitext editor:

Hello. This is some text.

With a paragraph break above it.

and then I changed to the visual editor, and saved. It looked exactly as I expected afterwards, with a paragraph break between the two paragraphs, and it also looked fine in preview for source mode as well.

Is there something I'm missing?

Smalyshev added a comment.Jul 31 2018, 7:37 PM

It doesn't happen every time, unfortunately. I am not sure yet what is the trigger, but it happens to me a lot when I am editing. I'll try to narrow it down and see what exactly triggers it. One possible thing is copy-paste from outside, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Aklapper closed this task as Declined.May 19 2020, 9:41 AM
In T200561#4466722, @Smalyshev wrote:

I'll try to narrow it down and see what exactly triggers it. One possible thing is copy-paste from outside, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Unfortunately closing this Phabricator task as no further information has been provided. @Smalyshev: If you manage to narrow it down and if this still happens, please set the status of this task back to "Open" via the Add Action... → Change Status dropdown. Thanks!

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