Editor: preserve markdown when copying and pasting - #3371
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A paste of a single word or letter is always adding line breaks for some reason. E.g. have foobar in the editor, put the cursor after foo and paste a single letter. This results in 3 lines.
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| // Let the original paste handler insert plain text inside code-like nodes. | ||
| // Parsing it as markdown would split pasted code into regular document blocks. | ||
| if (view.state.selection.$from.parent.type.spec.code) { |
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Probably makes sense to guard inline code marks as well here.
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It looks like this is an error in the native paste command, we already return false here, but the issue persists.
This is also the case on demo
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Description
Improve Markdown clipboard handling in the rendered editor.
Copied selections from Markdown documents are serialized as Markdown text, so they can be pasted into Markdown-aware targets without switching to source mode. Pasted clipboard text is now inserted through the Markdown parser consistently, including when the clipboard also exposes an HTML payload.
Downside: rich formatting that only exists in the HTML clipboard payload, such as bold text copied from a web page, is not preserved in Markdown files. Rich note editing should use the
.ocnotefile extension for that use case.Related Issue
How Has This Been Tested?
pnpm test:unit --run packages/web-pkg/tests/unit/editor/extensions/markdownClipboard.spec.tsTypes of changes