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Bug: quoting a bullet list in the Stacks editor messes up the list.

Example:

select bullet list, click on quote icon

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create an answer in the Stacks Editor (e.g. an answer to this question)
  2. Switch to "Rich text mode"
  3. Create a bulleted list
  4. Select the whole list
  5. Click the quote button

This results in the following Markdown:

- > 1. Item 1 > > 2. Item 2

The expected Markdown (and the behaviour in the old editor):

> - Item 1 > - Item 2

Tested with Chrome on Android and Firefox on Windows.

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    Can you be a little more specific about the exact steps you used to produce this animation. I cannot seem to replicate this on an android phone. Commented Jan 10 at 15:27
  • @PeterJames select bullet list, click on quote icon Commented Jan 10 at 15:41
  • But where do the bullet list elements come from? How are you creating them? I presume that you are referring to the stacks editor for asking questions and creating answers (or am I missing something?) Commented Jan 10 at 16:19
  • @PeterJames I use the stacks editor for creating answers. I've added an example of bullet list in the question Commented Jan 10 at 16:28
  • It appears that block quoting a bullet list or a numbered list removes the hyphens or numbers and replaces them with greater than signs. Perhaps this will turn out to be status-bydesign Commented Jan 10 at 16:41
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    @PeterJames only in Markdown mode, in rich text mode the behaviour is as described by Franck Dernoncourt. Commented Jan 10 at 16:48
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    Can reproduce on desktop. You have to manually select the list items, pressing ctrl+a doesn't have the same effect Commented Jan 10 at 17:43
  • I wonder, do they still work on the new new new editor, or is it abandoned by now? (Really asking, I don't follow on SO-only things) Reason for asking: last bug reported for that editor was fixed a year ago, as can be seen in this list. And from my experience, when they stop fixing bugs on something that appears to be active, it means it's actually not active and going to be taken down, see the apps as the perfect example. Commented Jan 10 at 17:51
  • @ShadowWizard the staging ground went inactive for an entire year, and it still got revisited. As far as this editor goes, it's received far more updates in recent history than the old one has. :shrug: I don't see them abandoning it entirely unless they decide to move SOfT to a new editor. Commented Jan 10 at 20:21

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