Ensure the native->web text preserves spacing

[alex-ozdemir]

Two changes:

• set innerHTML rather than innerText or textContent (I cannot get either to avoid mangling text).
• manually escape spaces and newlines (as is needed).

This patch is motivated by my use of GMail.

[alex-ozdemir]

This probably closes #63.

[alex-ozdemir]

Paging @jlebon. What do you think of this change?

[alex-ozdemir]

Paging @jlebon again.

[jlebon]

Can you describe in more details what issues you're seeing?

[alex-ozdemir]

Hi Jonathan,

Of course! I should have to begin with.

I use textern most in GMail, to write essentially all of my email. It seems that the text in the external editor -> GMail textbox pipeline gets mangled.

Specifically, I see two phenomena:

• the leading whitespace on each line gets dropped
• adjacent spaces get trimmed to a single space

This seems somewhat GMail-specific. In github (e.g., this text box) I have no such issues.

The approach taken in this patch is to write to the inner-HTML directly, in a way that GMail seems to understand.

However, perhaps we should restrict the patch to only modify interactions with GMail? (similar to interactions with Slack?)

Cheers, Alex

P.S. Thank you for creating this extension. It really has improved my email experience a lot :).

[alex-ozdemir]

Okay, I went ahead and scoped this to GMail message bodies.