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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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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 TextEditThis 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)
Teams really needs to prioritize code formatting fixes if they ever want to be as useful as Slack and Discord are, which are currently both leagues ahead of Teams when it comes to developer communication.
I expect format preservation and language-specific syntax highlighting to be a standard feature in any modern chat client these days. I shouldn't have to spend more time fighting against the client to do what I need it to do than it takes to write the actual message.
I expect format preservation and language-specific syntax highlighting to be a standard feature in any modern chat client these days. I shouldn't have to spend more time fighting against the client to do what I need it to do than it takes to write the actual message.
