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my-kl
Brass Contributor
May 12, 2021

Why does Teams always strip indentation when pasting text?

It's fairly common to want to post code in teams (without using the special formatting for code snippets). The markdown like syntax for code works pretty well when typing code and it preserves ind...
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    my-kl
    May 14, 2021

    my-kl 

    So I got to the heart of the matter. I used the Clipboard Inspector to inspect the contents of clipboard when copying the same text from two different apps. Both have two entries. One of the entries is text/html and one is text/plain. The text/plain as you might guess is identical. The html is quite different. I then copied the html and rendered.

    This is what I see from TextEdit

     

    This is what I see from Visual Studio Code

     

    So this would appear to be an issue with my environment in Visual Studio Code (or even a defect in Code, I"m not sure)

     

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my-kl
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Ok some more sleuthing:

If I copy from Visual Studio Code and paste into Teams (on macOS) this problem happens.

If I copy from TextEdit or Visual Studio and paste into Teams, the indentation is fine.

So this is weird interaction between Teams, the clipboard and Visual Studio Code.

But, I can copy from Visual Studio Code into TextEdit and everything is fine. Then I can copy from TextEdit and paste into Teams and everything is fine.

Anyone have a firm understanding of how the clipboard works and what app might be working incorrectly? Seems perhaps Teams is confused by meta data from Visual Studio Code?
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my-kl
Brass Contributor
May 14, 2021
Using this website I was able to examine the clipboard data from TextEdit and Visual Studio code.

The text/plain entries look identical, but the text/html entries are radically different. That seems to be a clue.
  • my-kl's avatar
    my-kl
    Brass Contributor
    May 14, 2021

    my-kl 

    So I got to the heart of the matter. I used the Clipboard Inspector to inspect the contents of clipboard when copying the same text from two different apps. Both have two entries. One of the entries is text/html and one is text/plain. The text/plain as you might guess is identical. The html is quite different. I then copied the html and rendered.

    This is what I see from TextEdit

     

    This is what I see from Visual Studio Code

     

    So this would appear to be an issue with my environment in Visual Studio Code (or even a defect in Code, I"m not sure)

     

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        michaelfs
        Copper Contributor
        Oct 14, 2021

        my-kl This definitely should not be closed, I do not use vscode and I still have the following issues on OSX\MSTeams:

        1. no markdown support (some garbage WYSIWYG constantly interfering with my typing).
        2. ``` no longer creates code blocks 90% of the time. In fact, the closing ``` becomes a weird empty code block more often than the opening code block ever works.
        3. pretty much everything I paste into MSTeams has it's formatting removed, so nobody can read it.

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