I've just did a volley of edits on VE mobile and noticed copy pasting didn't include all the markup like it does on regular desktop. I only got plaintext and was forced to use source editing. A known issue? I'm on Android+Chrome.
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I don't know if this is a problem with the copying (which I don't think VE can affect) or with the pasting (which it might be able to). If you copy similar content to another app, is the formatting retained by the other app?
Thanks for you response as usual :)
Well no, it does show up as plain text in other apps, I just tried. Isn't that how it's on desktop too? Only copy-paste within VE pastes the wikitext properly, elsewhere, it's just plaintext even on desktop.
It depends on the app. If I paste from a website into Google Docs, I get rich-text formatting (e.g., copying a portion of this discussion thread copies bold face text and links, not just the words). If I paste into an e-mail message, I get plain text or rich text, depending on whether the e-mail message is set to plain text or rich text.