What you see there: Pasting doesn’t work. Instead a weird grey box appears, which also messes with anything I subsequently type into the editor. (The grey box disappears if I click elsewhere in the editor, but I didn’t record that part.)
PS: If you mods want me to post this as a github issue, I can do so; or if you prefer, you can do it yourselves. I just don’t want this bug report to get lost.
Continuing my ability to stumble on weird niche bugs by accident:
Take a comment with bullet points nested two levels deep, like this one.
Copy a bullet point nested two-deep via Ctrl+C.
Paste elsewhere on Less Wrong via Ctrl+V, e.g. into a comment here. (Do not use Ctrl+Shift+V, which pastes plaintext; this does not trigger the bug.)
Expected behavior: The text is pasted into the new comment, either with the nested bullet points or without them.
Instead, here’s a gif of what actually happens:
What you see there: Pasting doesn’t work. Instead a weird grey box appears, which also messes with anything I subsequently type into the editor. (The grey box disappears if I click elsewhere in the editor, but I didn’t record that part.)
PS: If you mods want me to post this as a github issue, I can do so; or if you prefer, you can do it yourselves. I just don’t want this bug report to get lost.
Thanks for the report! Yeah, a good deal of weirdness lives in editor edge cases.
A GitHub issue would be good, but here is also fine if it’s easier.
Have created a Github issue here.