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by andrewshadura 1466 days ago
Well, I want the previous editor back. In fact, just give me a text area. The current editor breaks the selection and, in turn, the clipboard manager, it doesn't work well with Compose and dead keys, and it sometimes ties itself into a knot, and the text can't be edited anymore.
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When pasting links stopped working for me is about when I stopped using Facebook.

It's 2022 and we're reinventing every wheel, but in the browser.

GitHub has a Markdown editor with a paste handler (converting tables and such). It once had a bug. I had to disable handlers in the browser to be able to paste.

A textarea would not work