Why is it impossible to enter line breaks into issue descriptions?

Question

This seems to be a new bug. I'm unable to enter line breaks into the description when creating a new issue. Pressing enter appears to have no effect.

If I go to edit the issue, then I can enter line breaks. Running Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04, but that shouldn't really matter.

Steve Malers · Answer

I have been having the same issue the last few days.  It makes it very difficult to copy content into an issue because it copies onto the end of the current line and you can't insert a line break in the middle of an existing line.

cognivator · Answer

I also cannot use the Enter key to create newlines in the Issues editor... either during creation, or edit.

The workarounds are weird:

- type a line, make it a list, then create more list items, finally remove the list formatting

OR

- insert a divider, then hit backspace

Would be better if the Enter key was working. 😉

Jan Sondergaard · Answer

Is there a regression bug on this old issue?

For the last week or so, I have not been able to hit [Enter] in the Create Issue.Description field.

Note, this is only when you create the issue.