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jlebon / textern

A Firefox add-on for editing text in your favourite external editor!

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edits are discarded by mastodon web ui #84

Open jhnc opened 1 year ago

jhnc commented 1 year ago

observed behaviour

access mastodon edit form: https://[instance-name]/publish
insert some initial text into form
invoke textern (my config = ["xfce4-terminal","--disable-server","--geometry=100x40","-x","vi"])
insert some text in editor
save (:w) - new text appears in mastodon web page
quit (:q) - text in mastodon reverts to initial text

expected behaviour

1-5 as observed; 6 should not cause reversion.

notes

text also discarded when using ["xterm","-e","vi"] or ["mousepad"]
observed with mastodon 4.0.2; unsure if affects other versions
I will also report this to mastodon, in case this is not something textern can fix

jhnc commented 10 months ago

Still affects mastodon UI at version 4.2.1

Closed by mastodon as "not planned" whatever that means: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21063