Wordpress auto-incorrect'ing my pre-formatted text

[Gregory Lee Bartholomew]

Hi Paul:

I'm having a bit of a hard time with the new Wordpress editor. It keeps auto-
removing all the newlines in my pre-formatted text. It also removes the leading
# from lines that I past into the pre-formatted block. I tried using the code
tag instead, but that has problems rendering angle brackets (using the ASCII
character gives an error and the HTML escape codes don't get translated).

I think disabling auto-correction in pre-formatted text blocks would be the best
option. A quick google search seems to suggest that it is possible to do:

https://www.webhostinghero.com/blog/preserve-line-breaks-and-formatting-in-w...

Would you mind looking into this?

Thanks.

[Silvia Sánchez]

Hi all,

I noticed the same. I absolutely dislike the new blocks editor.

Kind regards,
Silvia
FAS:  Lailah

On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 17:31, Gregory Lee Bartholomew <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi Paul:
>
> I'm having a bit of a hard time with the new Wordpress editor. It keeps
> auto-
> removing all the newlines in my pre-formatted text. It also removes the
> leading
> # from lines that I past into the pre-formatted block. I tried using the
> code
> tag instead, but that has problems rendering angle brackets (using the
> ASCII
> character gives an error and the HTML escape codes don't get translated).
>
> I think disabling auto-correction in pre-formatted text blocks would be
> the best
> option. A quick google search seems to suggest that it is possible to do:
>
> https://www.webhostinghero.com/blog/preserve-line-breaks-and-formatting-in-w...
>
> Would you mind looking into this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Gregory Lee Bartholomew
> PGP Key ID: 3B67510E
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[Paul Frields]

I can't reproduce this when I made a new article and pasted in text. I
made a block, converted it to preformatted, and pasted in text
including lines prefaced with # and $, and multiple newlines. When I
preview the article things look as expected. Can you do a screencast
showing the problem?

Paul

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 11:31 AM Gregory Lee Bartholomew
 wrote:
> Hi Paul:
>
> I'm having a bit of a hard time with the new Wordpress editor. It keeps auto-
> removing all the newlines in my pre-formatted text. It also removes the leading
> # from lines that I past into the pre-formatted block. I tried using the code
> tag instead, but that has problems rendering angle brackets (using the ASCII
> character gives an error and the HTML escape codes don't get translated).
>
> I think disabling auto-correction in pre-formatted text blocks would be the best
> option. A quick google search seems to suggest that it is possible to do:
>
> https://www.webhostinghero.com/blog/preserve-line-breaks-and-formatting-in-w...
>
> Would you mind looking into this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Gregory Lee Bartholomew
> PGP Key ID: 3B67510E

[Gregory Lee Bartholomew]

Sure:

https://send.firefox.com/download/57a12ed882f12447/#7rXuAQzqj6m55hCvqX3ikg

I was having a little trouble reproducing the newline deletion problem on a
small test document. I didn't want to corrupt my current document again. Working
in the code editor view seems to work-around the newline deletion problem, so I
will be content with that for now.

You can look at my revision history to see where all the newlines were deleted
in my mirror-your-system-drive article.

Thanks.

On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 14:58 -0400, Paul Frields wrote:
> I can't reproduce this when I made a new article and pasted in text. I
> made a block, converted it to preformatted, and pasted in text
> including lines prefaced with # and $, and multiple newlines. When I
> preview the article things look as expected. Can you do a screencast
> showing the problem?
>
> Paul
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 11:31 AM Gregory Lee Bartholomew
>  wrote:
> > Hi Paul:
> >
> > I'm having a bit of a hard time with the new Wordpress editor. It keeps auto-
> > removing all the newlines in my pre-formatted text. It also removes the leading
> > # from lines that I past into the pre-formatted block. I tried using the code
> > tag instead, but that has problems rendering angle brackets (using the ASCII
> > character gives an error and the HTML escape codes don't get translated).
> >
> > I think disabling auto-correction in pre-formatted text blocks would be the best
> > option. A quick google search seems to suggest that it is possible to do:
> >
> > https://www.webhostinghero.com/blog/preserve-line-breaks-and-formatting-in-w...
> >
> > Would you mind looking into this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Gregory Lee Bartholomew
> > PGP Key ID: 3B67510E

[Gregory Lee Bartholomew]

I was able to reproduce the newline deletion problem with a small document. It
seems to happen when switching back and forth between the visual editor and the
code editor:

https://send.firefox.com/download/d6327c00ee8653b4/#76fPqSenEoyPJDf_LYtEnA

I was switching between the two modes because of the hashtag deletion problem.

I think I know what to avoid now, so I guess it isn't as big of a deal, but it
is very frustrating! It would be great if you could fix this.

Thanks.

On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 14:27 -0500, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote:
> Sure:
>
> https://send.firefox.com/download/57a12ed882f12447/#7rXuAQzqj6m55hCvqX3ikg
>
> I was having a little trouble reproducing the newline deletion problem on a
> small test document. I didn't want to corrupt my current document again. Working
> in the code editor view seems to work-around the newline deletion problem, so I
> will be content with that for now.
>
> You can look at my revision history to see where all the newlines were deleted
> in my mirror-your-system-drive article.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 14:58 -0400, Paul Frields wrote:
> > I can't reproduce this when I made a new article and pasted in text. I
> > made a block, converted it to preformatted, and pasted in text
> > including lines prefaced with # and $, and multiple newlines. When I
> > preview the article things look as expected. Can you do a screencast
> > showing the problem?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 11:31 AM Gregory Lee Bartholomew
> >  wrote:
> > > Hi Paul:
> > >
> > > I'm having a bit of a hard time with the new Wordpress editor. It keeps auto-
> > > removing all the newlines in my pre-formatted text. It also removes the leading
> > > # from lines that I past into the pre-formatted block. I tried using the code
> > > tag instead, but that has problems rendering angle brackets (using the ASCII
> > > character gives an error and the HTML escape codes don't get translated).
> > >
> > > I think disabling auto-correction in pre-formatted text blocks would be the best
> > > option. A quick google search seems to suggest that it is possible to do:
> > >
> > > https://www.webhostinghero.com/blog/preserve-line-breaks-and-formatting-in-w...
> > >
> > > Would you mind looking into this?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gregory Lee Bartholomew
> > > PGP Key ID: 3B67510E

[Gregory Lee Bartholomew]

I think I had the download count set to only 1 in the previous Firefox Send
link. Sorry about that. Here it is re-uploaded with the download limit set to
100 and the time limit set to 7 days:

https://send.firefox.com/download/527755c37c619301/#X13M4WNYx3EbuX_q-N8xVw

At time index 4:20, I change "One" to "Ones" in the visual editor and that is
when, after I click "save draft", all the newlines get deleted from the pre-
formatted blocks.

On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 15:45 -0500, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote:
> I was able to reproduce the newline deletion problem with a small document. It
> seems to happen when switching back and forth between the visual editor and the
> code editor:
>
> https://send.firefox.com/download/d6327c00ee8653b4/#76fPqSenEoyPJDf_LYtEnA
>
> I was switching between the two modes because of the hashtag deletion problem.
>
> I think I know what to avoid now, so I guess it isn't as big of a deal, but it
> is very frustrating! It would be great if you could fix this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 14:27 -0500, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote:
> > Sure:
> >
> > https://send.firefox.com/download/57a12ed882f12447/#7rXuAQzqj6m55hCvqX3ikg
> >
> > I was having a little trouble reproducing the newline deletion problem on a
> > small test document. I didn't want to corrupt my current document again. Working
> > in the code editor view seems to work-around the newline deletion problem, so I
> > will be content with that for now.
> >
> > You can look at my revision history to see where all the newlines were deleted
> > in my mirror-your-system-drive article.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 14:58 -0400, Paul Frields wrote:
> > > I can't reproduce this when I made a new article and pasted in text. I
> > > made a block, converted it to preformatted, and pasted in text
> > > including lines prefaced with # and $, and multiple newlines. When I
> > > preview the article things look as expected. Can you do a screencast
> > > showing the problem?
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 11:31 AM Gregory Lee Bartholomew
> > >  wrote:
> > > > Hi Paul:
> > > >
> > > > I'm having a bit of a hard time with the new Wordpress editor. It keeps auto-
> > > > removing all the newlines in my pre-formatted text. It also removes the leading
> > > > # from lines that I past into the pre-formatted block. I tried using the code
> > > > tag instead, but that has problems rendering angle brackets (using the ASCII
> > > > character gives an error and the HTML escape codes don't get translated).
> > > >
> > > > I think disabling auto-correction in pre-formatted text blocks would be the best
> > > > option. A quick google search seems to suggest that it is possible to do:
> > > >
> > > > https://www.webhostinghero.com/blog/preserve-line-breaks-and-formatting-in-w...
> > > >
> > > > Would you mind looking into this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Gregory Lee Bartholomew
> > > > PGP Key ID: 3B67510E

[charles profitt]

On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 10:31 -0500, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote:
> Hi Paul:
>
> I'm having a bit of a hard time with the new Wordpress editor. It
> keeps auto-
> removing all the newlines in my pre-formatted text. It also removes
> the leading
> # from lines that I past into the pre-formatted block. I tried using
> the code
> tag instead, but that has problems rendering angle brackets (using
> the ASCII
> character gives an error and the HTML escape codes don't get
> translated).
>
> I think disabling auto-correction in pre-formatted text blocks would
> be the best
> option. A quick google search seems to suggest that it is possible to
> do:
>
> https://www.webhostinghero.com/blog/preserve-line-breaks-and-formatting-in-w...
>
> Would you mind looking into this?
>
> Thanks.

I had this same problem in my HDYF article. I had to manually edit the
generated HTML and it still auto-corrected it after that. It was
frustrating. I would vote for disabling auto-correct in pre-formatted
as well.