Magic carriage returns or pastings

[postb99]

Describe the bug
Sometimes a set of carriage returns, seems 3 at once, is added to my multiline "info" field, for every line, every 2 seconds.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

I have some files with following TOML metadata but have the issue with YAML metadata too.
The "info" field has multiline content with special characters.
I don't know exactly how this bug starts but it seems related to copy-paste and switching from FrontMatter view to File view, after performing file search.
I also notice excessive magic pastings of my info field frontmatter below to some other open files that don't have info field or have another simple info field, when I switch focus (FM view more often than File view).

I only have this bug with such complex multiline content.

The include syntax below is a way of including a markdown file into another for the Hugo theme I use, but I also keep this into info field for backup reason.

info = """
Some text.

View full list :

{{% include "../../includes/my_listing" hidefirstheading %}}"""

Expected behavior
No magic pasting or such reformatting.

Screenshots
Not recorded yet.

Device:

• OS: Windows 11
• Front Matter CMS Version 10.8.0
• Browser: not applicable

Additional context
Restarting VS Code temporarily solves the magic behavior. Sometimes closing all files so that FM has no active file is enough.

[estruyf]

@postb99 do you have by any chance GitHub Copilot enabled?

[postb99]

Yes I have. Can I disable it only for frontmatter extension ? Or else for my workspace. Thanks for the point, I'll give a try.

[estruyf]

Yes, you should be able to go to your extensions panel, find GitHub Copilot, and there you have a disable button. You should be able to set it to disable for workspace.

Let me know if this fixes the magic, if not, I have to try to reproduce it somehow.

[postb99]

After disabling Github Copilot in workspace, I still see the strange behavior.

Here is how looks undesirable change added to an open file...

To reproduce it:

• have several files open
• in one, paste multiline text in info text field
• observe somehow magically changed files. At a moment, every open files becomes a pasting target... but no carriage returns added, just magic pastes.

[estruyf]

Thanks for the details. Would you be able to create a recording, so that I can do the same steps? Thanks 🙏

[postb99]

Great, I could reproduce it with rather simple steps. I attach a recording at time I noticed the magic pasting happening.

Since you forked my site to fix front matter settings, I think you can continue playing with it. However I should add a note to README to clone the Hugo theme else Front Matter is broken because it needs to load my settings file and the theme's settings file. End of side note :)

Steps:

• Open a .md file in Explorer view
• Add a "_simpleNotice" using snippet feature (scissors icon opening my snippets library) , this will add the following:

{{% notice style="primary" %}}

{{% /notice %}}

• Paste following content between the tags:

Les poèmes qui commencent par ces deux premiers vers...
{{% include "../../includes/quand_un_avion_trace" hidefirstheading %}}

• Being still on the same .md file, click in sidebar to active FM view.
• Then paste same content into "info" custom field whose title is "Additional description" in FM.
• Observe the magic pasting as below... I am not sure whether I saved the .md file before switching views but think I did not.

Edit: Oops I think Copilot was enabled back after reinstalling computer. But so we have one case.

Second edit: Double checked: no, Copilot isn't listed in installed extensions... Fine

[postb99]

Well, editing some content today, I think I got it. FM's view is activated but I update content manually by typing or pasting text in right panel.

First, I edited a text whose "info" custom field, in YAML format, contains:

info = """
Les poèmes qui commencent par ce vers...
{{% include "../../includes/l_automne_est_venu" hidefirstheading %}}"""

I manually edited to:

info = '{{% include "../../includes/l_automne_est_venu" hidefirstheading %}}'

And also pasted at the end of the file:

{{% notice style="primary" %}}
{{% include "../../includes/l_automne_est_venu" hidefirstheading %}}
{{% /notice %}}

When opening the second file, all of a sudden, the info field in FM metadata got updated with:

info = '{{% include "../../includes/l_automne_est_venu" hidefirstheading %}}'

...that come from my previous file editing but not my clipboard...

And that gets pasted to a third file I open.

Still version 10.9.0.