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VisualEditor: After you create a link and close the link inspector, please de-select the newly linked text
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Description

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Type some text: "Foo bar baz bat"
  1. Select the last word, because you want to create a wikilink before you finish typing the sentence.
  1. Type Command-K to create a link.
  1. Make a link. Click "Done".
  1. Finish typing the sentence.
  1. Oops, where did [[bat]] go?

Results:

When you exit the link inspector, the linked text remains highlighted, and typing results in it being overwritten by your next character.

Expectation: after I've made a link, de-select the link and put the cursor at the end of the word, so I can keep writing.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz69711

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:41 AM
bzimport added a project: VisualEditor.
bzimport set Reference to bz69711.
Jdforrester-WMF changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Feb 2 2015, 7:24 PM
Jdforrester-WMF claimed this task.

We've intentionally chosen this behaviour after a huge amount of user and product research.