https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58554
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Bug ID: 58554
Summary: Unintuitive behavior when changing text at beginning
of link
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: ContentEditable
Assignee: da...@sheetmusic.org.uk
Reporter: axelbo...@yahoo.com
CC: da...@sheetmusic.org.uk, i...@wikia-inc.com,
jforres...@wikimedia.org, jh...@wikimedia.org,
krinklem...@gmail.com, or...@framezero.com,
ryasm...@wikimedia.org
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
When editing Wikipedia, I have repeatedly run into the following issue:
The article contains a link and I want to change the beginning of the link text
(not the link's target), usually because it is upper case and I want it lower
case. So I use VisualEditor to delete the first letter of the link and replace
it with its lower case version. The result is unexpected: the first letter is
not marked up as part of the link, but this is very hard to see.
The source code is transformed from [[Link]] to l[[Link|ink]]. Links like the
latter are almost never contained in human-created wikitext.
Suggestion: link text should be "magnetic", so that changes at either end will
automatically inherit the link markup.
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