Reference another board member when pasting text created/edited in an external editor

[Michael Flad]

Hi,

is there any way to have the members link and notifications work, when pasting text written outside of Trello?

When I copy from and directly paste into Trello it works as expected. But when I f.i. write a comment or card description in another tool, say VSCode, and I add the very same member link text, i.e. @membername, and then past this text into Trello, the member link does not work, is not clickable and the member doesn't get a notification.

Reason I want this is, as long as it's possible, I simply edit absolut every text I have to write in the same editor so I do have all my shortcuts, snippets, notes etc. whatever I may need, available. I developed this habit many years ago when browser/webapps were ureliable and after I lost edits again and again I simply decided to not type more than the absolute required minimum within a browser - nowadays that's only a very minor issue, but the added value/comfort of using my primary editor is only growing over time :)

Thanks for any help/enlightment

[Daydreamer Mike]

Hi @Michael Flad 

I would say this is a bug.  It should be able to do that.

Can you raise this as a bug via https://trello.com/contact 

You can go to https://trello.com/labs and switch off WYSIWYG editor. The old editor works correctly (I just tested it)

[Michael Flad]

Hi @Daydreamer Mike

thanks for your answer, seems to be, in fact, working with WYSIWYG disabled. Any known downsides leaving WYSIWYG disabled as I prefer raw formats anyway? :)

I'll report it as a bug.

[Daydreamer Mike]

The only risk I can foresee is that one day Atlassian may remove the possibility for disable it.