"Keep Line Breaks" missing in 3.9.1

If I enter copy in Text mode that uses line breaks or paragraphs:
Toggle to Visual, and then back to Text, I end up with:

All line breaks and para breaks being removed.

I believe I am grappling with the same issues.

Line breaks are disappearing, even when they still appear in the source code for the same post/Page/whatever contains text.

Is this a feature/bug of the new version of the text editor bundled with WordPress?

Why not paste in word or pastebin and then into wordpress?

iansss and websta — I think you’re talking about separate issues from this one — might be best to start separate threads for them.

master412160 — I’m hoping to find a way to do it without any kludgy workarounds that would add steps to our workflow.

The old paste box was perfect. Can’t we just get it back?

Not at this time. As we have said many times before, this was removed by the developers of TinyMCE.

Sorry Esmi. I was not aware of those many other times. Thank you for repeating the information.

If not a return to the old way, is there work underway to get a similar feature? Work time is greatly lengthened by this glitch.

As I understand it, there is work underway to try and create a workaround for this but given the amount of work it takes to port TinyMCE into WordPress, an effective solution may take some time. All we can do is aks you to please be patient.

In the meantime, I wonder if one of the editor plugins, like WP Edit, might help?

Hi all!

Maybe this javascript code can help you. Make a textarea somewhere, copy your text there and you get back as paragraphs, than you should copy from the textare into WordPress post html editor.

<script>
function keepline()
{
	var text = "";
	text = document.getElementById("textareaid").value;
	var replaced = "";
	replaced = text
			.replace("\n\n    ", "\n")
			.replace(/.\n    /g, ".\n\n").replace(/is/g, "or");
	document.getElementById("textareaid").value = replaced;
}
</script>
<textarea id="textareaid" cols="100" rows="10">Copy text here and you get back!</textarea>
<button onclick="keepline()">Click here</button>

There was a checkbox which read “Keep linebreaks” when you opened the pastebox. In 3.9.1 it is gone. That is the issue I am asking about. I think it’s the OP’s issue.

Has anything happened with this? I just updated yesterday. I waited a while so I could avoid things like this. While a lot of the improvements are excellent, losing a feature like this is unacceptable.

I paste from InDesign into WordPress for a newspaper. Without this feature I have to go into the pasted post and manually add every paragraph break. The paper takes about 1/3 more time than it used to.

Has anyone found a workaround?

Is there another editor that I could add as a plugin that has this feature?

WordPress 4.0.1 still has the same issue.

As we have said many times before, this was removed by the developers of TinyMCE.

Closing this. We know. It’s not us, its tinyMCE, and it shouldn’t be needed any more as the c/p function in the new TinyMCE handles things totally differently.