Best way to paste blocks {code, quote} into Bike 2 Preview?

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Is there a best practice if we want to paste code as data-type=code rows,
rather than as <p><code>…</p></code> formatted data-type=body rows ?

(and in parallel, is there a way of pasting quoted material as data-type=quote rows ?)

If, for example, my clipboard contains 30 lines of code, and I paste into Bike 2.0 Preview (270), I do get well displayed code.

It tends, I think, to consist in Bike of a series of rows of body type, with code highlighting. Sometimes, however, I seem to have succeeded in creating a series of rows of code type, rather than highlighting.

But I think I’m missing the pattern, or failing to design the experiment carefully enough …

( Should I just be sketching a small extension command ? )

Intuitively, I find myself wanting to apply Format > Row > Code Block, or Format > Row > Blockquote to an existing blank line, and then paste with that line selected.

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Is this markdown on the clipboard? What path are you using when pasting? Normal paste, or Paste and Render Markdown?

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Not a specifically Markdown clipboard – just code and normal paste.

Perhaps I should enclose my code clipboards with MD fences ?

UPDATE

Trying that (including an MD code fence, and using Edit > Paste and Render Markdown) seems to produce more or less the same result:

  • Code fence rows are included in the paste
  • formatting is <p><code> … </code></p> (rather than data-type="code")
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Ah, I now see that I introduced a bug in Paste and Render Markdown in recent release. Need to fix that, and then the path for copy of:

> one
> two
> three

Followed by Paste as Markdown … that path should insert block quotes. Or code if it was code formatted it would insert Code Blocks, Etc.

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271 release should understand Paste and Render Markdown again.

There’s more that could be done re paste code, etc. But it starts to get a bit complex… trying to detect users intent … do they want to continue formatting in outline, or do they want formatting all come from pasteboard.

I think for the foreseeable future it will not try to continue any formatting on paste.

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