Did Slack ship a buggier version of this yesterday? I have it on one of my workspaces, and it's fine.
I can still type `backticks` in the editor, with the exact same combinations of keystrokes I used before, it's just that they render as they will on the channel, rather than showing me the backticks (and only when I type the closing backtick. GIF here: https://i.imgur.com/o3wPWN0.gif)
Triple backtick does the same, and I can easily type another triple backtick to exit the code block, same as before. It's literally identical ergonomics to the previous editor, except it's showing me the formatting I can expect.
I have to think that maybe they issued some hotfixes to the wysiwyg editor in the past 24 hours to some workspaces? Or people are just way too up in arms about something that has literally no impact other than maybe some wasted screen real estate showing formatting buttons...
To name one: You realize after finishing your code block that the first two lines of it actually shouldn't have been part of the code block, but should have been normal text above.
Go ahead and try to make this change with the new system.
Compare that to what you would have done with the old, plain-text system.
Worse than that -- let's say you start typing in a code fragment inside backticks, but your code fragment includes a constant variable name like MY_COOL_VARIABLE. Because Slack doesn't evaluate the backticks until you add the closing backtick, the WYSIWYG editor turns MY_COOL_VARIABLE into MYCOOLVARIABLE, converting the "COOL" in the middle in italics... and then applies the monospaced styling _on top_ of the italics, so you have a really bizzarre output.
Oh, and you can't easily get the underscores back -- you'll need to retype the variable name.
Sure enough, the rich text formatting is copied. The workaround I have for this is the Get Plain Text app. It strips all formatting from copied text (either automatically or on a keyboard shortcut). Sad it's required for this use case. But at least this works.
Slack can't seriously expect us to apply clumsy workarounds
to their single most important feature (text-entry) that
many of us use hundreds of times per day.
In particular since the solution is
as trivial as adding an off-switch.
> To name one: You realize after finishing your code block that the first two lines of it actually shouldn't have been part of the code block, but should have been normal text above.
* move the cursor to 0,0
* hold shift and hit down-arrow twice to highlight the first two lines
* continue holding shift and hit left-arrow once to deselect the EOL on the second line
* use the keyboard shortcut for toggling code blocks (cmd-alt-shift-c)
It may have been buggier yesterday, but I had the change applied to my desktop client today and it is still buggy. Try to edit an `inline code` section. Or enter two code blocks back to back. Or paste in anything with formatting, especially if there is a code block at the end.
I use the website, and for our workspace I am not seeing the auto-formatting at all now. It appears to be like it was before they rolled out the wysiwyg. Yay I guess. I did not like it at all so I'm happy about it.
Because it now more then a textarea, my mind automatically adapt and expect <enter> to give me a newline, but instead I am filling up channels with premature messages. Weird.
I can still type `backticks` in the editor, with the exact same combinations of keystrokes I used before, it's just that they render as they will on the channel, rather than showing me the backticks (and only when I type the closing backtick. GIF here: https://i.imgur.com/o3wPWN0.gif)
Triple backtick does the same, and I can easily type another triple backtick to exit the code block, same as before. It's literally identical ergonomics to the previous editor, except it's showing me the formatting I can expect.
I have to think that maybe they issued some hotfixes to the wysiwyg editor in the past 24 hours to some workspaces? Or people are just way too up in arms about something that has literally no impact other than maybe some wasted screen real estate showing formatting buttons...