Live Preview: Text select drag and drop of text is incorrect when going from or to a location with markdown markers

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Steps to reproduce

Select ** at the end of some bolded text.
Move the selection / highlight to the right in the same sentence.

Expected result

The two stars go where they should.

Actual result

The two stars go 4 characters more to the right, relative to where they should be

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.9.12
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

Additional information

The formatting seems to be rendered before moving the selected text:

https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/1286754583846064138/1420777919634083892
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Are you moving the selection highlight, or moving the selected text? Either way, how are you doing it? Shift →? Cut & paste? Something else?

3

Very interesting. I wonder if you are the first to spot this. This is a much broader problem.

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Steps to reproduce

  • In Obsidian v0.13.14 or v0.13.19, open new document in “Live Preview” mode.
  • Paste following text into Obsidian (without surrounding code-block backticks).
permanent line above
moved line 1
moved line 2
[markdown](link)
permanent line below
  • Select “moved lines” including initial line-break after “permanent line above”.
  • Drag and drop them before “permanent line below”, i.e. after markdown link from which only “markdown” is visible in live preview.

Expected result

Dropped text should is intended and expected to be pasted after the link.

permanent line above
[markdown](link)
moved line 1
moved line 2
permanent line below

Actual result

Dropped text is pasted between visible and hidden part of link.

permanent line above
[markdown
moved line 1
moved line 2](link)
permanent line below

Current workaround

  • select the text to be dragged.
  • cut it by Ctrl+X
  • click to target location (This places cursor correctly after markdown link.)
  • paste the text by Ctrl+V

Environment

  • Operating system: Windows 7
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Ok I can reproduce.

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