[$30] Formatting Issue in Forum Post editor window

[m-yadav]

In Vanilla forums , while posting a reply or initiating a thread , if we paste any string with the underscores, and then select the entire string and press on the italic button, the underscores vanish in the preview or the actual post.
Ideally the underscore should be preserved while clicking on the italic button.

Supporting Screenshots

Before :

After selecting the text and clicking on Italic Button

[jmgasper]

@m-yadav - Can you let me know exactly what browser and OS you are testing please?

[sdgun]

@jmgasper I checked this, it's not browser specific.

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[jmgasper]

@atelomycterus - This one can be lower priority, thanks.

[atelomycterus]

@jmgasper This formatting issue is due to using two special chars (* and _ ) for italic in EasyMDE . If the selection contains * or _ then they are removed, and the text is wrapped with *.

During debugging I found out the same formatting issue with bold. If we paste any string with the 2 underscores, and then select the entire string and press on the bold button, the underscores vanish in the editor. EasyMDE uses ** and __ for bold.

To keep the underscores in text we can use * for italic, ** for bold. Let me know if you are ok. I'll customize bold/italic actions.

Before formatting lines:

Select text and press on the Italic button. The special chars are removed from the selection and the text is wrapped with '*'.

Before formatting:

Select text and press on the Bold button.

[atelomycterus]

@jmgasper I've customized bold/italic actions (☝️ ). Use * for italic, ** for bold.
Please apply PR: topcoder-platform/forums-topcoder-editor-plugin#25. Thanks!

Testing

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