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Why does Teams always strip indentation when pasting text?
It's fairly common to want to post code in teams (without using the special formatting for code snippets). The markdown like syntax for code works pretty well when typing code and it preserves ind...
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So I got to the heart of the matter. I used the Clipboard Inspector to inspect the contents of clipboard when copying the same text from two different apps. Both have two entries. One of the entries is text/html and one is text/plain. The text/plain as you might guess is identical. The html is quite different. I then copied the html and rendered.
This is what I see from TextEditThis is what I see from Visual Studio Code
So this would appear to be an issue with my environment in Visual Studio Code (or even a defect in Code, I"m not sure)
This needs fixing ASAP. It's absolutely ridiculous not to be able to paste code in a chat app and have it strip out whitespace.
It's not even whitespace at the start of lines, it strips out consecutive whitespace within pasted text too. Spaces, tabs, anything.
I work in a team of software developers, it's outrageous such a simple thing doesn't work.
...and the code snippet is not a substitute. It only displays five lines without expanding, and the entry is through a thought-interrupting popup. The "Monospaced" formatting was just fine for medium length pastes. (Actually, what is the point of monospaced formatting when the whitespace is collapsed? When is it even useful?)
dbomp Agreed code snippet is not a workaround. Not only for the reasons you stated, but also because you can't apply any other text formatting to the code snippet. One thing I do quite a bit (or used to) is paste a bit of code, then highlight the part I want to draw attention to. This woks in a Monospaced paragraph (but now the spaces are stripped so that's now useless).
- The workarounds also don't really work on the Linux client as well where Teams does this too.
