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my-kl
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May 12, 2021
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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 https://evercoder.github.io/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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mpowrie1
Copper Contributor
Oct 19, 2021
For the past few weeks I have this problem on Windows 10 and VS Code
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__om__
Copper Contributor
Oct 21, 2021

I started to observe the issue with stripped spaces and tabs for preformatted text pasted may be month ago (Windows 10).
The most annoying thing is inserting the code parts (even from Notepad or Notepad++).
Is there any workaround for this?

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