[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #63769: Long time bug in classic editor

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#63769: Long time bug in classic editor
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 Reporter:  neotrope      |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  TinyMCE       |     Version:  6.8.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:  javascript
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Changes (by sabernhardt):

 * focuses:   => javascript
 * component:  Editor => TinyMCE


Comment:

 This could go back as early as WordPress 4.0, when
 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29458/trunk/src/wp-
 includes/js/tinymce/plugins/paste/plugin.js r29458] updated to TinyMCE
 4.1.3. I reproduced it in WP 6.8.2 (with Classic Editor 1.6.7) and in WP
 4.8.25.

 The [https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-
 develop/blob/6.8.2/src/js/_enqueues/vendor/tinymce/plugins/paste/plugin.js#L356-L357
 regular expressions] for converting pasted content to an ordered list can
 match any of the examples below if they are at the beginning of a
 paragraph copied from a Word document. (The pattern is one English letter,
 or two in the same letter case, followed by either a dot or closing
 parenthesis and then a space.)

 {{{
 ST. LOUIS, MO
 FT. LAUDERDALE, FL
 A. A. Milne
 e. e. cummings
 P. Sherman
 S. Morgenstern
 ex. 4
 }}}

 Later in TinyMCE development,
 [https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/pull/6784 TINY-7368] fixed the Roman
 numeral detection before [https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/pull/7371
 TINY-7493] removed `WordFilter.js` entirely.

 Changes to the WordPress version of TinyMCE should be limited, but the
 `[a-z]` and `[A-Z]` matches might be inappropriate more often than they
 are helpful.

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