[$500] Chat - Text is always pasted as plain text when editing messages

[kavimuru]

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Version Number: 1.4.39-0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: n
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: applause internal team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

1. Log in to New Expensify
2. Navigate to any chat
3. Send message with markdown and copy it
4. Edit another message and paste copied message with markdown

Expected Result:

Message with markdown should be correctly pasted and include markdown of original message.

Actual Result:

Messages are pasted as plain text in edit compose box, all markdown is omitted.

Workaround:

unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

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Bug6373504_1707482428880.2024-02-09_13-38-35.mp4

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• Upwork Job URL: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~0151f8c718e0328abd
• Upwork Job ID: 1755994883161890816
• Last Price Increase: 2024-02-09

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~0151f8c718e0328abd

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @shubham1206agra (External)

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @muttmuure (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[github-actions]

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[kavimuru]

We think this bug might be related to #vip-vsb

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @AndrewGable (Engineering), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[shubham1206agra]

@thienlnam @tomekzaw This might be related to Markdown Preview

[jeremy-croff]

Seems related to Markdown preview. Has this been reverted? I dont get markdown preview anymore in staging.new

[jeremy-croff]

Can you confirm if you are looking for proposals? Or handled in Live Markdown Issues?

Cannot reproduce without live markdown build

[thienlnam]

We've reverted the offending PR #35837, so this is no longer a blocker

[robertKozik]

This issue has the same RCA as #36269

[thienlnam]

Cool, let's consolidate there