VisualEditor: Can't copy/paste a reference or template unless you select text either side
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	Esanders
	Jun 10 2013, 6:26 PM

Description

Create a document:

Foo <ref>Bar</ref> Baz
<references />

>

Foo [1] Baz

Test

Select and copy from '[' to ']' (no whitespace)
Try to paste
Note you now just have plain text [1]
Note also if you make a larger selection (e.g. from 'o' to 'B'), copy/paste works fine.

This might be to do with whitespace truncation, and probably applies to other inline nodes.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52271
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54410

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Reference: bz49396

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Esanders	T51396 VisualEditor: Can't copy/paste a reference or template unless you select text either side
		Resolved		Esanders	T55375 VisualEditor: Firefox doesn't fire a copy event when only a FocusableNode is selected

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 2:05 AM

• bzimport added projects: VE-deploy-2013-09-12, VisualEditor-ContentEditable.

• bzimport set Reference to bz49396.

Esanders created this task.Jun 10 2013, 6:26 PM

Bug 50594 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

bi.llybob wrote:

Note that, at least in Chrome, whitespace is <i>not</t> enough to count as additional text.

Bug 52212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Note this behaviour also occurs with templates

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80301/ fixes

Change 80301 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Copy-paste data fixes

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/80301

Change 80301 merged by jenkins-bot:
Copy-paste data fixes

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/80301

Fixed in master; will be deployed on Thursday as part of the regular push.

This is still broken in FF, see bug 53375

Change 83222 had a related patch set uploaded by Esanders:
The Great [...] Rewrite of 2013: Clipboard edition

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/83222

Change 83222 merged by jenkins-bot:
The Great [...] Rewrite of 2013: Clipboard edition

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/83222

I think this is still occurring (https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utente%3AElitre_%28WMF%29%2FSandbox&diff=68973564&oldid=68973535 ).
I'm using Safari, and I don't know if this is related to Bug 70143.

No, this was and remains fixed. Test in Chrome or Firefox, for example.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor-CopyPaste.Dec 3 2014, 1:30 AM

Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.

Jdforrester-WMF edited projects, added VisualEditor; removed VisualEditor-ContentEditable.Dec 3 2014, 1:33 AM

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