Observe nothing happens.
Deletion works on iOS, or if you use "cut" from the context menu.
See also:
I've attempted to reproduce with no luck. @Esanders could you confirm I'm taking the right steps here?
I've tried a mid-sentence reference delete (which I expect to work) and an end-of-sentence reference one which I expected to fail.
I suspect that the problem here might be Samsung.
I'm on a Galaxy A12. It's running Android 12 with One UI Core 4.1, and Chrome 142.0.7444.171, which seems like it might be a few months old but is current for this phone. I also tried with Firefox 145.0.2, which is quite a recent build.
Running against this-week branches:
mw branch: wmf/1.46.0-wmf.4
VisualEditor: cf14148c541554d1a7532eaf7d0ff6f3780c05a3
ve: 2b6316f99d2f98c1e3fea683ec6ee75c2d38eb3e
Samsung in their wisdom have provided a version of android which cannot screen record.
Video process: ffmpeg -i IMG_3564.MOV -vf "scale=iw*0.5:-1" -an -c:v libx264 -y IMG_3564.mp4
I just realised the keyboard is another angle. I installed GBoard.
I was able to reproduce in Chrome with GBoard. I was unable to reproduce in Firefox with GBoard. For good measure I tried the Samsung browser and was able to reproduce it as well, but it's chromium-based so that's not entirely unexpected.
We attempted to reproduce this in bare VE using a comment node, but the behaviour did not recur.
Next steps would be to identify whether this comes from Cite, mw-ve or ve. Ideally we would find a type of node which we can test in ve.