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The text area for the message is buggy (dragging text from TextWrangler app)
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Safari 5.1.8 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.

I have the page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help
I want to add a new subject.
I click the subject line. I write a subject.
Then I click in the text area for my message.

I drag-and-drop some text from the app TextWranger into the text area.

The text area is expected to contain my dragged text. The operation appears to succeed. The drag-and-drop is not put back.

Instead, here the problems start.
If the Safari window was at the front, the text area only contains the first line of the dragged text, all the other lines are missing.
If the Safari window was in background, the text area does not contain the dragged text at all.
Then, the text area has buggy behaviour.
Selecting all with Apple A is buggy.
Moving with Up and Down arrows has inconsistent buggy behaviour.

This is a regression.
With the plain old text area, all of that worked well.

It would be nice to correct that.

Thank you.

Nnemo

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DannyH renamed this task from The text area for the message is buggy to The text area for the message is buggy (from TextWrangler app).May 15 2015, 10:14 PM
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You're using VisualEditor, right? It has a few icons below it (Bold/Italic, person for Mention, Link).

Mattflaschen-WMF renamed this task from The text area for the message is buggy (from TextWrangler app) to The text area for the message is buggy (dragging text from TextWrangler app).May 15 2015, 10:38 PM
In T99264#1289487, @Mattflaschen wrote:

You're using VisualEditor, right? It has a few icons below it (Bold/Italic, person for Mention, Link).

I think so, but it is not obvious. I did not choose any editor. And I did not notice that the editor was visual.