Bug 41193 VisualEditor: Support copy and paste from other VE instances (surfaces) is now closed as FIXED yet a fully working cut and paste is not.
Some of the bits of copy and paste still not working are documented at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback&curid=37904286&diff=585650020&oldid=585645740

#External links? {{Tick}} This seems usually to work (not completely the same, but near enough). Mind you, external links in templates go completely haywire though... 
#Internal links? {{Cross}} I took one line from [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ?veaction=edit FAQ], "where do I donwload MediaWiki?". One single line, that's all. [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840546] Most other examples below contain further cases of internal links gone wrong
#References? {{Cross}} I tried to copy [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki?veaction=edit] (the whole page), to get a page with a reference (not common on Mediawiki). The result is baffling but amusing[https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840568]. If you go to the reference at the bottom of that page, and click the "arrow" at the left (taking you up to the place in the same page where that reference is used, no?) then suddenly you end at the original page, in VE edit mode! 
#List bullets? {{Cross}} [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Files_and_licenses_concept?veaction=edit], section Display, gives [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840576] Note how multiple lines from the original are squashed together in the copy
#Images? {{Cross}} I found an image in [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design?veaction=edit], section Code, Status: but the result [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840580] has no image, as part of the syntax is lacking...
#Templates? {{Cross}} I tried copying the template from [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Communication?veaction=edit here, on the right]: the result is [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840544]. Something simpler? <nowiki>{{Note}}</nowiki> changes into <nowiki><span class=""><span class=""></span></span><span class=""> </span>'''Note'''<span class="">:</span></nowiki> [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840555]
#Tables? {{Cross}} Taken from [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Code?veaction=edit], but the result is not quite the same [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840555], not the contents (yuk) nor the layout. 
#Code? {{Cross}} I tried to copy the code from [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ?veaction=edit FAQ], section "How do I add extra namespaces?", but the result [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840549] is not quite the same as the original, and looking at the actual code underneath makes this even more obvious
#Further bugs? {{Cross}}, e.g. the sudden appearance of (actually quite nice) clouds as section headers[https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840559]
#Further bugs part 2? {{Cross}} But extremely funny! No idea what happened here, but I tried to copy a section from [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download?veaction=edit], section "Development releases", and nothing more. The amazing result, starting from an empty page, is [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AFram%2FSandbox&diff=840564&oldid=840563]. Don't ask me where that template at the bottom left comes from, I didn't ask for it!
#Further bugs part 3? {{Cross}}, again funny, perhaps the same as the one above: From [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design?veaction=edit] I copy the short sentence <nowiki>see the {{git file|project=mediawiki/core|file=resources/mediawiki.ui/sourcefiles|sourcefiles}} subdirectory.</nowiki> (shown here in wikitext format, but everything here is copied using VE only!), which looks originally like "see the resources/mediawiki.ui/sourcefiles subdirectory". The end result of this one sentence? [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/Sandbox&oldid=840587] Don't you love it? 
#Further bugs part 4? {{Cross}} If I want to copy [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal/Design/FAQ?veaction=edit Flow Portal/Design/FAQ], I can't. I can't paste it into my sandbox, and if I paste it in multiple parts, I can't save it (the save button doesn't work).

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**Version**: unspecified
**Severity**: normal