Pasting links creates blank markdown url syntax

[bbhtt]

Steps to reproduce

1. Have nothing selected
2. Paste a link in the input box

Outcome

What did you expect?

Just to paste that link

What happened instead?

Instead it creates [](<link to be pasted>)

Possibly a regression from matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk@dfc7224? To my understanding it should convert to markdown when text is selected, not when directly pasting the link.

Video:

Screencast.mp4

Operating system

Arch LInux

Browser information

Firefox 100

URL for webapp

https://develop.element.io/

Application version

Element version: 31b4354-react-aa8e3dbfb45a-js-da69ca215b9c Olm version: 3.2.8

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

[nadonomy]

Very vocal +1 to this issue. The experience is unexpected & frustrating, and completely unusable for those who don't know MD syntax.

[Mikaela]

I agree and would say that this is very frustating also to those who know markdown syntax. I think people around me expect to just get the link and my context of it, not that I paste a link and keep typing within the closing ) breaking both my message and link.

Additionally this breaks communicating to other protocols across bridges (especially those that don't do markdown or where the bridge strips it) so I hope markdownifying links will not become a default in the foreseeable future.