Bold formatting bugs - need jquery.autotype to write a test

[jywarren]

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Problem statement by the user Jeffrey: I was typing into an editor, and did the following sequence:

1. made a newline (new paragraph)
2. pressed ctrl-b (or used the bold button)
3. typed Hello, replacing the strong text example text that appeared when i pressed bold
4. pressed ctrl-b again to /unbold/, saw strong text again but not bolded this time
5. typed , world replacing the 2nd (not bold) instance of strong text
6. went back to the start of the line, before Hello and pressed enter to add a line break
7. started typing (it was bold)
8. pressed ctrl-b to unbold and got strong text but bold this time
9. typed world and pressed ctrl-b again, got unbolded strong text.
10. pressed Markdown mode to see what was going on

I did this a couple times, this was the output in the most recent:

  
****

****Hello**, there**strong text******Hello **world, 

I think really we need to tackle this in smaller parts. I suggest that we install the autotype plugin so that we can simulate typing here: https://github.com/mmonteleone/jquery.autotype

Then we can try to reproduce a subset of the above sequence in a test,

[SidharthBansal]

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[jywarren]

Hmm. Was this fixed recently, i thought perhaps?

[jywarren]

Maybe linked to this? #220

[keshav234156]

@jywarren I was just thinking of rough idea of how we can solve this . The problem is occurring because of https://github.com/bevacqua/woofmark/blob/master/src/html/wrapping.js#L19-L21 .Only the HTML mode is using the wrapping function. The Markdown mode is using other function and it works perfectly in Markdown mode(Please check it so that I am confirmed that it's the correct behavior). We can directly make changes to https://github.com/bevacqua/woofmark , but author doesn't seem to be active(as the previous commit was 1 year ago). What we can do is that,to write our own bold and wrapping function similar to https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor/blob/master/src/modules/PublicLab.RichTextModule.HorizontalRule.js .Src code would be similar to https://github.com/bevacqua/woofmark but with the desired modification which solves this bug.
What do you think about this Or do you have any other workaround in your mind?