Web editor bugs

Using Vivaldi on Mac:

  • Cursor jumps
  • Copying text from the web editor into Drafts removes all line breaks.

Web editor remains unusable for me for any but the shortest posts.

same for me since August, for both. using Brave & Safari

Most of the cursor jump problems should be fixed now. There is still a known issue with using the arrow keys around block quotes.

For copying and pasting text… I don’t use Drafts on the Mac but I tested pasting into BBEdit and TextEdit and all line breaks are preserved.

I have not seen the cursor jumping today. Thank you for that fix. I am still seeing problems with cut-and-pasting removing line breaks and adding extra line breaks, but it’s intermittent and I haven’t been able to suss out a pattern.

I also don’t use Drafts, and I’ve also never seen this from neovim, VS Code, or iA Writer. I do see some weirdness with Obsidian, but that’s because it hides what you’re doing and the same “issues” are apparently when you open the raw text file in any other program or paste to any other text editor. So that’s not a bug, that’s just Obsidian’s styling sometimes not making clear where things are being wrapped versus explicit new lines.

Scheduling is broken from the web. I schedule a post, hit “publish” and the post publishes right away.

Also, I’m still seeing the jumping-cursor problem. It’s not as bad as before, but the cursor jumps a few characters after pasting text.

You’re right, something is wrong. When scheduling, the button is supposed to change to “Schedule Post” instead of “Publish”. I’m trying to figure this out now and will post an update.

On a second look, scheduling is working for me. The date field has to be set after clicking “Schedule Post…” from the menu. The button name is wrong, though, and I’ll have a fix ready for that shortly.

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I’m not sure if this is related but I’m having some problems with a post with a few code fences. The dark background in the editor for the code blocks is unreliable and pasting text sometimes doesn’t work and puts me at the start of the document.

not having a blank new line when you terminate the first code fence may be an issue. I’m pretty sure commonmark requires new line separation for consistent behavior in that case.