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Can't enter non breaking space into find and replace dialog using ctrl+shift+space
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • mark a text
  • press search and replace
  • try to enter a non breaking space (ctrl-shift-space) - it does not let you enter it.

What happens?: nothing.

What should have happened instead?:
non breaking space should show up when pressing shift-ctrl-space

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

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Event Timeline

Aklapper changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Apr 12 2023, 7:07 AM

This seems to be about VisualEditor? Please also provide more information:

include links if applicable

browser name/version

Esanders renamed this task from visual search and replace non breaking space is broken to Can't enter non breaking space into find and replace dialog using ctrl+shift+space.Apr 13 2023, 12:54 PM

The keyboard shortcut unfortunately only works on the main editing surface, and not in any tool/dialog text boxes.

Even if it worked, you'd still be unable to search for non-breaking spaces due to another bug, because it's represented in a special way in our data model (T251673#6109888). This is fairly difficult to fix, so just changing the keyboard shortcut wouldn't provide much benefit.