Strange Editor Response...

[jacobsamlarose]

Every now and then, FT does something in the UI that feels buggy. Sometimes quitting and restarting fixes the issue, sometimes it doesn't. A specific case, most recently, came up when I tried to copy text from a Pages document into a FoldingText document. I copied the text over, then tried to apply some markdown— in the first instance, add a # heading to an existing line. The # appeared, but the line wasn't recognised as a heading. And from then on, editing the document became impossible— the cursor wouldn't respond, double clicking at different points in the text would delete/hide chunks of text and more.

Other open windws are unaffected by this behaviour

I quit out of FT, removed all plugins and emptied my user.less of any modifications, and tried again. Same error.

I opened up an SDK window, copied the text in and tried the same operation. Got the following errors:

[Error] TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'match')
detectAndHighlightAtxHeading - markdowntaxonomy.js:368
classify - markdowntaxonomy.js:763
classifyWorker - classifier.js:440
ensureClassified - classifer.js: 61
ensureClassified - tree.js:1095
(anonymous function) - editor.js:1420
signal - codemorror.js:8420
endOperation - codemirror.js:3150
runInOp - codemirror.js:3294
poll - codemirror.js:1521
(anonymous function) - codemirror.js:1319
[Error] TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'match')
detectAndHighlightAtxHeading - markdowntaxonomy.js:368
classify - markdowntaxonomy.js:763
classifyWorker - classifier.js:440
classifyWorker

My best guess is that there's a character that's being misinterpreted, but I can't see anything that should be a problem. I've also tried to copy and paste via different applications that I assumed would strip out any invisible characters (NVAlt, Sublime Text) before pasting the text into an FT document, to no effect.

[jacobsamlarose]

Experimented a little bit more. It appears that copying text containing a line with a markdown # heading (any level) that ends with a carriage return (with another line of text following so that the CR is observed) renders the editor unusable...

[mutahhir]

At the moment, the following text:

#
Hello

Seems to not break FoldingText. Can you give me a snippet that does? Also, please make sure you're on the latest version of FoldingText (2.1.2 at the time of writing this)

[jacobsamlarose]

Thanks, Mutahir.

File attached that I consistently have problems with. Text is copied from a Pages document I was sent that I wanted to work with in FT. When I open it just now, the leading #s are not recognised, and the cursor won't move.

Let me know if there's something I should do to "sanitise" the copied text first before pasting it in.

Oh, and I'm still on 2.1.1. Tried updating to 2.1.2 and I lost the ability to work with my main file for no apparent reason, so I'm a little wary of attempting the update again.

BYP Rachel Notes on Portfolios.txt

[jacobsamlarose]

Updated to 2.1.2 again. This file still has the same issues on my installation.