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Why does Teams always strip indentation when pasting text?
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 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)
This is in fact worse in teams on Linux.
If i paste this code-snippet from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/ms762271(v=vs.85)
<book id="bk101">
<author>Gambardella, Matthew</author>
<title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
<genre>Computer</genre>
<price>44.95</price>
<publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
<description>An in-depth look at creating applications
with XML.</description>
</book>
This is what it looks like when posted on linux
and when posted on windows 10
Teams version on Linux - You have Microsoft Teams Version 1.5.00.23861 (64-bit).
Teams version on Windows 10 - You have Microsoft Teams Version 1.5.00.31168 (64-bit). It was last updated on 11/25/22.
Linux distro:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
This issue is causing considerable pain.
It seems in the last few weeks that pasting of text containing newlines in it are having them removed.
I confirmed that this is occurring both in windows and linux.
This should be a very high priority bug to fix - pasting many lines of console output to share with colleagues is extremely hard to read without manually re-inserting the newline characters.
Inserting a code-snippet is a slow work around, and forces titles and other painful UI experiences.
