--- ** [tickets:#7983] In editor, pasting should be auto-wrapped** **Status:** open **Milestone:** unreleased **Labels:** markdown-editor ux **Created:** Fri Sep 04, 2015 02:24 PM UTC by Dave Brondsema **Last Updated:** Fri Sep 04, 2015 02:24 PM UTC **Owner:** nobody When pasting a large chunk of text into the markdown editor, it often would be useful to automatically wrap it with `~~~~` or indent it. People who paste code snippets or log lines would benefit from this, especially if they are not familiar with markdown and don't realize it needs to be in a code block to avoid `__foo__` from getting formatted etc. I think this would help alleviate problems expressed in https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/feature-requests/134/ However, that won't be appropriate all the time, since some people could paste large amounts of regular text or even markdown formatting (e.g. restructuring a wiki page). Turning it into a code block won't be helpful. We'll need some sort of UI to make this work well. I am thinking that we show a notification after it happens, and tell the user how they can click the code snippet button to undo it. We can also save a cookie/sessionStorage setting to not do it again. Here's an autoindent snippet proof-of-concept: ~~~~ cm = editor.codemirror; // based on https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/issues/2120 cm.on("change", function(cm, change) { if (change.origin != "paste" || change.text.length < 2) { return; } var spaces = cm.options.tabSize; cm.operation(function() { for (var line = change.from.line, end = CodeMirror.changeEnd(change).line; line <= end; ++line) { cm.indentLine(line, spaces); } }); }); ~~~~ --- Sent from forge-allura.apache.org because dev@allura.apache.org is subscribed to https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/tickets/ To unsubscribe from further messages, a project admin can change settings at https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/admin/tickets/options. Or, if this is a mailing list, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list.
