Bold/emphasis shortcuts not working with multiple cursors

Issues
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Bug report

Hi there, I’m a software developer and I always take notes with this magnificent app.
I’ll go straight to the point, sometimes, when I take notes, I do not put any formatting at first, but when I finish writing, if I got spare time, I usually put some kind of style and formatting to the document, like putting bold/italic/… .
The problem is that when I press CTRL, to select more then a word at a time instead of going one by one, the formatting gets buggy.
Some selected sentences are repeated and everything is formatted, instead of only the words I’ve selected.

Environment

  • Platform: Windows
  • Platform version: 11
  • App Version: 5.5.3

How to reproduce

Select more then a word and then press the B (or CTRL+B). You’ll see duplicated sentences and a wrong formatting.

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Hi Danilo,

Thanks for the report.
Is that correct to reproduce the issue by the following steps?

  1. For example, you have a sentence like so:
|Hello world this is Takuya.

“|” is a cursor.

  1. Hold CTRL, press Right three times
<Hello world this>| is Takuya.

The text is selected from “<” to “>”.

  1. Press CTRL-B

You get duplicated sentences.
What happens here?

Currently, I can’t reproduce it at least on macOS.
If you installed some plugins, please try disabling them.

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Hi there!

No no, I’ll attach some screenshot to let it be more clear.

Let’s say I’ve some text, when I press CTRL and click with mouse on different words, They get selected, then I would like to have only AWS, Cloud and they as bold.
But as you can see this is the behaviour when I click on B(bold).

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Gotcha!! So, you are talking about multi-cursor operations.
I managed to reproduce it.

I’m planning to migrate CodeMirror, the editor component, from v5 to v6 in the future.
It should be fixed with the new version.

5

Yes! I was not getting the word :sweat_smile:

Perfect, thanks a lot! Keep up with the amazing work! :slight_smile:

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I get the same bug. I am aware that this bug is known to the author and will be fixed in the future. But I also want to report this “Ctrl-B to bold selected text” bug for single cursor and other conditions.

Environment

  • Platform: MacBook (I also use Inkdrop on Windows and iOS, but have not yet tested for this bug)
  • MacOS version: 14.0 (23A344)
  • Inkdrop version: 5.5.3

How to reproduce

  • Bug 1: wrong selection when pressing Ctrl-Z after Ctrl-B: the whole selection moves 2 letters to the right. All the time.
  • Bug 2: select a word with next space together, Ctrl-B => the next word is bold as well, not only the word between the two **.
  • Bug 3: It’s more complicated and weird if you select text from 2 lines: whole lines or not, with spaces and the end of the selection or not. You can check this yourself.
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Hi Chris,

Thanks for letting me know. I’ll keep those bugs in mind when upgrading CodeMirror to the new version!

Regarding the bug 2: select a word with next space together, Ctrl-B => the next word is bold as well, not only the word between the two **.
It would be an incorrect Markdown: **cooked **foods does not work in the CommonMark specifications.
You can test it here: commonmark.js demo

Regarding Bug 3, how should the editor behave by this, what do you think? CommonMark doesn’t support emphasizing text across multiple list items.

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I see, and I agree with you about the bug 2. It’s not a bug.
Regarding bug 3, the only matter is that the selection moves when you press Command-B and Command-Z. (both actions move the selection).

Thanks for the quick response!

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bug 3 - alright, it works correctly on the mobile version, which is built with CodeMirror 6. So, upgrading CM will resolve the issue.