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T264116: Reply inserted at wrong indentation level on ja.wp (after a comment with an empty paragraph)

Report (1): In w:ja:Special:Diff/79496531, the last line of the previous comment has one level of indentation, so the reply should have two levels instead of one?

The previous comment has irregular indentations (it starts with*, then #, and ends with :), so not sure if this can be handled correctly by Reply Tool though.

Report (2): Per phab:T252708 indentation is always done by :, but it does not explain the behavior in the following two diffs:

• w:ja:Special:Diff/79575146 - Replying to a comment with * results in indentation of :.
• w:ja:Special:Diff/79575218 - Replying to a comment with ** results in indentation of **:.

My opinion is that if we keep the behavior in T252708 then the first diff should have an indentation of *:.

Note: Both reports come from w:ja:Wikipedia:井戸端/subj/返信ツールをベータ機能として導入する提案.

Thanks for the reports, and sorry for the late response.

In (1), I think this happens because the reply tool treats the empty paragraph after the previous comment as a part of the second comment, and because of that it treats the second comment as if it was not indented. I think this is a bug; I filed T264116.

In (2), it looks like the page has been deleted, so I can't see the diffs any more :( but I am guessing it's a similar situation.

In general, when checking the indentation level of a comment (which affects the indentation level of new replies), we check the whole comment rather than only the last line. Checking the last line caused wrong results for comments ending with a bulleted list (T252702).

Apologies - for (2) it was in w:ja:WP:SANDBOX so it got deleted. I reproduced it in another page:

• w:ja:Special:Diff/79760809
• w:ja:Special:Diff/79760810

My guess is the horizontal rule (----, which cannot be indented unless the tag is written directly, like :<hr />) being treated as part of the comment.

Thanks, indeed.