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Text editor stability on Wikipedia iPadOS app
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Description

The Wikipedia iPadOS app's text editor has stability issues, causing the text cursor to jump to another paragraph mid-edit and resulting in any characters typed post-jump being added to the section the cursor jumps to by accident.

Steps to Reproduce:
Access the text editor to edit a section of an article on the iOS app, inputting a sentence or partial paragraph to see when a cursor jump generates.

Expected Results:
The cursor will abruptly move to a neighboring sentence or a paragraph farther down the section.

Event Timeline

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tvtonightokc triaged this task as Unbreak Now! priority.Oct 14 2020, 4:41 AM
JMinor lowered the priority of this task from Unbreak Now! to Medium.Oct 19 2020, 7:03 PM
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While I understand this is frustrating, Unbreak Now signals the teams that they must drop all other work to solve this issue. This level is for things like "I can't reach wikipedia" or "the app crashes every time I run a search" that effect many users and require an immediate response.

I've set this to normal and we'll follow up in our next release. Please note that there are some known issues with CodeMirror (the library we use to drive the editing experience) and we've not always been able to fix them ourselves. We'll do our best.

LGoto removed -dero as the assignee of this task.Jan 25 2022, 9:46 PM
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