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Copy and pasting references?

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Patar knight (talkcontribs)

We used to be able to click on a reference (bringing up the pop-up with the edit button), copy, and then paste within the article or even between articles if you had both pages open in VisualEditor. This was very useful since it allowed editors to quickly reuse the the same source without using the "reuse" tab, which often got unwieldy and slowed down performance on long pages. Recently, doing this instead just produces [x] in plaintext upon pasting. Is there any way to get the old functionality back?

EDIT: Chrome 69.0.3497.100, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, Vector

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)
Patar knight (talkcontribs)

Yeah. The copy paste function just seems to get rid of all the wikiformatting: references, links, etc.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Well... I was thinking about upgrading to High Sierra, so maybe I'll do that now, and see whether I have the same problem.

Patar knight (talkcontribs)

I think it's actually something with Chrome. There's been a few isolated incidents of not being able to "Cmd C + Cmd V" into the address bar.

Copying refs and links in Visual Editor works if I right click and select "copy" and right click and select "paste", though "paste and match style" does not work and just results in plaintext. I've also figured out that this solves the Chrome address bar issue as well.

For the record, I'm running Google Chrome Version 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) (64-bit), and I've now upgraded to macOS Mojave Version 10.14 (18A391).

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