Text Block: You can paste multiple paragraphs in

[jasmussen]

As reported in #1291 (comment), with screenshot https://cl.ly/011C0a450G2P, you can copy and paste arbitrary content into the basic text block.

Since it's only for single paragraphs, this appears to be a bug.

Possibly related to #495

[aduth]

Can you clarify if this is for the freeform block or the text block? Seems to be the latter.

[jasmussen]

Nope, this is for the plain Text block. Here it is with textexpanded text:

Here's the freeform block:

[ellatrix]

First, we'll need this for sure: #1331.

So then there are a few option for this one:

• We build it in the parser. Pasted content is parsed, and it is all inserted correctly as text blocks (paragraphs). 😃
• We build it in the parser, but only for pasted content. This means that parser for pasted content will do an extra effort to convert legacy (and pasted) content. 😃
• We paste it as inline content. 🙁
• We create a freeform block. ☹️

My favourites are one and two. :) See also #1133. cc @dmsnell

[dmsnell]

intercepting the paste is something I think we'll have to be aware of for all block types. what does it mean to paste formatted text into the embed URL input?

in this case, we could parse it as HTML with JS then split by top-level p tags and create separate blocks for each one

[ellatrix]

Yeah, so we'd prefer to go for parsing paste content only (second option)? Sounds good to me too.

intercepting the paste is something I think we'll have to be aware of for all block types. what does it mean to paste formatted text into the embed URL input?

In #1331, if the block does not have an onSplit prop, it will be pasted as inline content. So if you pasted paragraphs in a button, it will all be just text.

[ellatrix]

Fixed in #1331.