I’m finish editing markdown in my VSCode and paste it to the topic editor. Then empty line is inserted between every lines. It is annoying that my unordered lists and reference blocks broke into multi parts. I have searched the forum and didn’t find the same problem. Any workaround?

Hello, I think the problem is that the copied text is formatted. I found here a solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70288252 Go to Settings > Search for editor.copyWithSyntaxHighlighting and turn off. This is worked for me. :slightly_smiling_face:

I’m just confirming the issue with a video example:

[image] Michael Brown: Does it function properly if you force a plain text paste? I tried and it works. :slight_smile: :+1: Ctrl+Shift+v for the plain text paste shortcut (some don’t know!).

That’d be it then. vscode offers the following formats: TIMESTAMP,TARGETS,SAVE_TARGETS,MULTIPLE,STRING,UTF8_STRING,TEXT,chromium/x-web-custom-data,text/html,text/plain,text/plain;charset=utf-8 and the text/plain is (for example): 'use std::collections::HashSet;\nuse std::collections::HashMap;\nus…

Thanks to all of you Didn’t expected for such rapid solution

Empty line is inserted between every lines when I paste text into editor

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supermathie (Michael Brown) January 3, 2023, 9:50pm 4

I suspect the editor is picking up a text/html version and pasting that.

Does it function properly if you force a plain text paste?

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Empty line is inserted between every lines when I paste text into editor

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