Don't litter posts with whitespace (empty paragraphs inserted around code blocks)

[waclawek.jan]

JW

[Lina_DABASINSKAITE]

Hello, @Tobe all, 

The recent update that I have on this topic: this bug will not be fixed on a current community version. Once we have more news on the version update, I let you know. 

I understand the frustration and apologize for the inconvenience you are facing right now. 

Greetings,
Lina

[Andrew Neil]

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@Tesla DeLorean wrote:

As any kind of bug list and progress reporting on addressing, prioritizing and fixing is entirely opaque, it's hard to discern progress from the outside beyond the rearranging of icons and size of edit boxes.

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Indeed; eg,

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@Lina_DABASINSKAITE wrote:

The recent update that I have on this topic: this bug will not be fixed on a current community version. 

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So does that mean the vendor has now recognised this as a bug? If so, when did they accept that?

But they've refused to address it?

[Andrew Neil]

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@Peter BENSCH wrote:

you can work around it by editing manually after switching to HTML. I've just forgotten exactly how I did it,  

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Example of excess blank lines added by the forum, and compounded with editing:

How it looked in the editor:

and in the HTML:

After taking them out:

But posting still puts some back in:

[BarryWhit]

I just reported this elsewhere, and andrew pointed me here.

Very annoying, please fix ASAP.

[Tesla DeLorean]

Yes, it's been a gripe for a while. Along with the spurious HTML error report/warning when pasting something into the editor and posting. That seems to self remediate if we're persistent and push to post again.

Usually I catch this as I paste something in, and it's evident it's in a box with odd formatting it brought with it. Ctrl-Z and paste as plain text..

[BarryWhit]

I don't suppose ST is using an open-source solution for this forum....? [he asks, knowing it was futile]

[Tesla DeLorean]

No, they've all been commercial, was Microsoft SharePoint, then Jive, then SalesForce, now Khoros.

I guess one of the selling points being Corporate and "supported" by paid engineering staff rather than a couple of guys around their kitchen table, although I think the latter could be motivated by much smaller sums of money to fix / add things, or get them right the first go around.

Other scenes I participated on frequently had the databases self-immolate, requiring a recovery/rebuild, but they weren't paying Oracle prices. That said they had a lot better grasp of how the BBS and Forum mechanics were supposed to work.

[BarryWhit]

a new reality! wouldn't that be awesome. I can't wait to be deployed, managed and scaled. Sign me right up.

[Andrew Neil]

Example:

https://community.st.com/t5/stm32cubeide-mcus/debugging-stm32f429-on-disco-board-with-cubeide/m-p/719506/highlight/true#M30610

If I edit the post, the whitespace does not appear in the editor!

Using the HTML source view, it can be seen:

Manually removing all those <p>&nbsp;</p> does seem to fix it.

Could this be another manifestation of the same bug which underlies this issue:

https://community.st.com/t5/feedback-forum/don-t-litter-posts-with-whitespace-empty-paragraphs-inserted/m-p/574693

Reply migrated from another topic.

:thinking_face:

[Andrew Neil]

The issue continues to annoy.

And now, possibly another manifestation of the bug same:

https://community.st.com/t5/feedback-forum/more-spurious-whitespace-in-posts/m-p/719528