Copy to clipboard outputing escape characters in template content

[AlexJerabek]

Bug Report

• Host: All
• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: N/A
• Environment: Beta

Expected behavior:

Share | Copy to clipboard should give me output able to be pasted into Notepad++ (or whatever editor). New lines in Script Lab should be new lines in the text.

Actual behavior:

The template section (and only the template section) is full of \s. Tabs and newlines are represented by \t and \n and quotes are also escaped.

Steps to Reproduce:

1.Share | Copy to clipboard
2. Copy into Notepad++

Screenshot:

[nico-bellante]

This should be fixed in Beta now, please reopen if the issue persists.

[AlexJerabek]

@nico-bellante I'm still having this happen for the HTML section. I can't reopen the issue since I'm not an admin on this repo.

[Zlatkovsky]

@AlexJerabek, reopened it for you

[Zlatkovsky]

@AlexJerabek , I also added you to give to the repo, so you should be able to re-open issues in the future.

[Zlatkovsky]

@AlexJerabek , just tried it with the same "Basic conditional formatting" snippet that you have in your repro -- and I am not able to repro. I am getting a beautifully multi-line template:

Is this happening to you with any snippet or with particular snippets?

FWIW, I still think there is some weird semi-nondeterministic behavior with the YAML parser, we had issues like that perennially in the older Script Lab (OfficeDev/script-lab-2017#268). But if we can figure out the pattern -- and esp. if this is something that can be done deterministically just using the YAML parser library, outside of Script Lab --, perhaps we can find a cure.

[AlexJerabek]

Here's a test snippet I just repoed this with: https://gist.github.com/AlexJerabek/372f1dd5f065d89217415f9fb3c348d1

I imported the snippet using the gist URL, copied to the clipboard, then pasted into a .yaml file opened in VS Code. Here's the screenshot:

[ElizabethSamuel-MSFT]

Transferring this issue to the office-js repo, the new home of Script Lab issues.