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-i...

Would you mind looking into this?

Thanks.

-- 
Gregory Lee Bartholomew
PGP Key ID: 3B67510E

[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 <
gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com&gt; 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-i...
>
>  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
<gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com&gt; 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-i...
>
> 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
>  <gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com&gt; 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-i...
>  > 
>  > 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
>  > <gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com&gt; 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-i...
>  > > 
>  > > 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
>  > > <gregory.lee.bartholomew(a)gmail.com&gt; 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-i...
>  > > > 
>  > > > 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-i...
>  
>  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.