E-NoteForum 107 Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 There was a golden era for a few months, maybe even a year, when Evernote's text formatting was pretty solid, but now the extraneous line breaks have returned. It makes using Evernote with any other text-accepting program incredibly frustrating. I haven't been able to find a solid repro path, but I have found that in notes that have nothing but text, and which have no formatting of any kind, sometimes when I copy/paste the text from Evernote into other apps there will be extraneous line breaks. There will frequently be an extra line break above the first line of the note, and sometimes extra line breaks are inserted randomly in between lines of text. They aren't inserted mid-sentence, they are always inserted where there is a line break. It's as if you hit Enter twice when starting a new line, not just once. In my experience, this is 100% caused by Evernote. I have tested it with numerous other text-handling apps, and Evernote is always the culprit. Here's a probably-not-comprehensive list of other apps that interoperate perfectly with each other, but not with simple text from Evernote:FirefoxNotesTabPagesScrivenerSparrowTextEditUnity3D EditorI have notes that look correct in Evernote (i.e. no extraneous line breaks) that will have line breaks if I copy them into any of the above programs. The text always looks right in Evernote and is always busted in the same way in any other app I paste it into. If I recreate the exact same text in any of the programs above and paste them into any of the other programs above, the integrity of the text is preserved perfectly. It seems that Evernote still doesn't have a clean text formatting engine, and that there are some non-standard ways it handles text for itself that are incompatible with the rest of the text formatting world. It's super frustrating not to be able to rely on WYSIWYG formatting. Despite all of the features that have been piled into Evernote over the years, it is a text-based program. The first thing you see when you create a note is a blank text note with a blinking cursor. It's disappointing that after years of struggles, Evernote still doesn't have acceptable text handling for basic, raw, formatting-free text. I'm using Evernote 5.2.1 on Mac and Evernote 5.4.3 on an iPad 2 and iPhone 5. I wouldn't be surprised if these extra line breaks were introduced in notes that have been edited by multiple Evernote clients. 2 Link to comment
E-NoteForum 107 Posted September 18, 2013 Author Share Posted September 18, 2013 I just uploaded an example broken note on support ticket 156868. Link to comment
antonjazz 1 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 I sure hope this gets fixed sometime soon. I agree - very frustrating. 1 Link to comment
Kirby Krieger 72 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 +1. It makes Evernote untrustworthy. It's not just line-breaks. Clip (afaict _anything_) from the Web, and play around with deleting line-returns (if that's what they are) by forward-deleting with the cursor at the end of the line, and deleting with the cursor at the start of a line. Mayhem. I also like when I paste with the cursor at the end of the Note and the clipboard contents are inserted at the beginning of the Note. Evernote.mac 5.5.1 on OS X 10.8.5. Link to comment
E-NoteForum 107 Posted May 28, 2014 Author Share Posted May 28, 2014 Still a bug. Any progress? Link to comment
ScottLougheed 1,316 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Still a bug. Any progress?There haven't been any public statements specifically regarding this behaviour. However, EN staff have commented on these forums that they are reworking the text editor, so this might be something they will address in these revisions, which I am sure we will see sooner rather than later... at least I hope! Link to comment
E-NoteForum 107 Posted May 28, 2014 Author Share Posted May 28, 2014 EN staff have commented on these forums that they are reworking the text editor. This is promising (and much-needed). Is there anywhere I could look for more details, or is this more of just a thing that's been mentioned here and there? Link to comment
ScottLougheed 1,316 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 EN staff have commented on these forums that they are reworking the text editor. This is promising (and much-needed). Is there anywhere I could look for more details, or is this more of just a thing that's been mentioned here and there? Just posts here and there. As is typical of Evernote, they are tight lipped, so it is surprising we have as much info as we do on this. We'll just have to hang in there! Once it hits the betas, details will start to appear on the forums. Link to comment
xaa 18 Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 any news for the editor review ? Link to comment
Level 5* Metrodon 2,188 Posted November 11, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted November 11, 2015 The latest version contains the new editor Link to comment
hinder90 3 Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 This problem has been going on got literally a decade yet the Evernote team has yet to do anything about it. It is utterly maddening that they still can't get simple formatting to work in notes- a problem they have never been able to resolve while the simplest text editors don't have an issue with it. I put up with it because of the rest of their features, but the makers should really be ashamed about this one. It's literally been around since the product was conceived. I cannot roll my eyes hard enough through the back of my head for this one! 1 Link to comment
hinder90 3 Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 On 11/11/2015 at 1:37 AM, Metrodon said: The latest version contains the new editor That may be so, but what should come as no shock to anyone, the problem is not fixed. As I said previously, it has been broken for over a decade. Don't expect it to take less than another decade for it to ever get fixed- if ever! 1 Link to comment
rwalls3 1 Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 This just caused me and my team several hours of headaches as we had stored a couple key/secrets that we use for AWS in evernote. Big mistake. When we copied the keys out and put them into use in our application... boom, unexplained errors. Took us hours to figure out evernote had inserted the extra character. I've been a big evernote supporter for years.... probably wouldn't be able to recommend evernote anymore for technical teams until this is fixed. 1 Link to comment
Abimael 0 Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Any solution about this? when I want to copy some commands(on evernote) to the shell I need to copy into another editor before that! Link to comment
hinder90 3 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Nope, not as far as I can tell. Just today I cut and pasted some file names into file namer in TextMate and I couldn't figure out why the file name wouldn't appear to paste, but it was because it was throwing a carriage return in the name. Good thing "git status" caught the weirdness. This is pretty unacceptable as far as I am concerned, but the folks at Evernote clearly don't seem to care. Link to comment
Dave Darby 2 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Yes, this still drives me nuts. Extra line return even when the copy contains ONLY the text wanted (not just on double-click selections). The the issue is with the copy function in EN which must override standard OS copy. If I have for example: Quote this is my text to copy and I highlight ONLY "this is my text" then Cmd+C, I end up with on the paste: this is my text (newline) Buggers. 1 Link to comment
P7TS 0 Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 This does remain a problem - perhaps one more post will push it into the queue to actually be solved? Seriously Evernote. Are you even a little ashamed? A response even? Disgusted Link to comment
scb 3 Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 At least for me, this problem was eliminated in version 6.12 b2. Link to comment
romsta 0 Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Still a problem for me in version 6.13. Link to comment
JoyceL 0 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 There must have been an Evernote version that fixed this problem, because I'e only started experiencing this problem in the last month. It is really annoying when you need to copy/paste something technical. I am using desktop version 6.7.5.5825 Link to comment
Ken Owen 1 Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 I'm using Evernote MAC v6.13.1 and having the same problem. Please fix. Thanks Link to comment
134ke 0 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 This bug makes Evernote unusable. Link to comment
eyalnow 14 Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 august 2018. same problem, even when i format the note as plain text. ideas ? workarounds ? Link to comment
dkuskov 0 Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 I'm having the same issue with version 7.8 Link to comment
CY7 0 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Yes I'm having this issue with version 7.8, anyone has a workaround? Link to comment
Harry in cupboard 0 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I'm having this issue with version v7.8 on Mac. I think it was okay with previous version. I hope it will be fixed in the next version. Also whenever I use code-blcok (control + command + b), it makes two additional blank lines, which is annoying. Link to comment
AC202 1 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Upgraded to 7.8 and sure enough I'm seeing the same thing. This pretty much makes pasting from Evernote "dangerous" and unusable for rerunning saved system commands. The word is going around and nobody here (apart from yours truly) will be upgrading Evernote until this is remedied. And if it isn't soon then we'll have no choice but to find a more suitable alternative. 1 Link to comment
asmc 0 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 I'm having this issue with version v7.8 on Mac Link to comment
Sabbione 0 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Same here, the issue is back since 7.8 any plan to fix it? Link to comment
Gary Stevens 0 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 This issue is making Everote difficult for me to use day to day as I use it to copy & paste bash terminal commands. I believe it may have started for me after an update in the last quarter of last year, maybe a bit earlier. I'm using Mac OS 10.14.2 and Evernote Version 7.8 (457453 Direct) Editor: 62.1.7539 (b406110). I also notice text formatted as code in notes using { } has blank lines added at the end, maybe a related issue? If this is not fixed soon I will have to find an alternative solution. Link to comment
PSi 12 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 When you copy and paste system commands, the last thing you want is to have a carriage return inserted automatically! Also wasted 2 hours wondering why a piece of text pasted into a password field wasn't working. Turns out it's because of the extra carriage return. Please please fix this bug guys. Link to comment
Harry in cupboard 0 Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 I have v7.7 on my home mac mini, and there is no problem with copy/paste into terminal. So you may try delete the app and install v7.7. Also, check this out. I will test it on Tuesday. a Link to comment
PSi 12 Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Just tested 7.9 Beta 2, it doesn't fix the problem. Link to comment
Harry in cupboard 0 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Sad... I will try to revert my Evernote version to v7.7 and never upgrade again. Link to comment
andcam 0 Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 This serious bug is STILL not fixed. It destroys my workflow and i've had to resort to mac stickies for cut & paste operations. madness! Link to comment
PSi 12 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Version 7.9 is out and the bug still remains! I don't get cheesed off by a lot of things but this is getting beyond a joke. I have a TON of commands in Evernote I copy from and this is messing with me big time. Link to comment
Sabbione 0 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 given the attention that evernote is giving to this critical issue it is time to move on and use something else apparently... Link to comment
cmoriarty 0 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 I keep hoping each update I install is going to fix it. It seems like such a simple problem to address, but alas, it persists. Over the years, I developed a habit of pasting commands I have in evernote into Atom to get rid of the newline, and then into the terminal. Sometimes I forget though, and its always dangerous. I think I'm over it. Bye Evernote, its been real. Link to comment
Dave Darby 2 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 I’m close to that point too. I had forgotten about this bug (certainly it’s not a feature) and recently once again struggled to login to our servers with long, 14+ digit password that was copied and pasted from Evernote. I ended up alerting our web host, we chased our tails for a few hours before I realized it was this old big biting me on the butt again. Why is Evernote injecting text/code into our notes even if and when we selectively select limited text? No clue, but it’s clear they aren’t seeing these discussions so we need to find another way to reach them for a simple fix or find a new widget. Link to comment
Ex Employees Jay-Bob 127 Posted April 22, 2019 Ex Employees Share Posted April 22, 2019 @cmoriarty,@Sabbione, @Dave Darby the fix for this is available in the 7.10 Betas 1 & 2 (more info here) and will be released in the next full 7.10 GA update if you're not a fan of betas. If you want to try a beta, keep in mind you'll need to first be on the direct download version of Evernote from www.evernote.com, not the Mac App Store version. Link to comment
nomaded 0 Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 (edited) I have 7.10 for Mac installed, and I'm still seeing the problem with the extra newlines being inserted. It appears the problem is not with the Evernote editor but with the what Evernote is doing with the macOS clipboard when it detects text is copied to the clipboard. I'm seeing this problem with extra newlines when I'm trying to copy and paste lines of text between MacVim and Excel, not involving Evernote in any way. If Evernote is running, I have the newline problem. If Evernote is not running, I don't see the newline problem, at least in my 30 min of testing with Evernote not running. But I haven't had the time to run and document a series of comprehensive tests to figure out all the edge cases. Edited June 5, 2019 by nomaded fixed typo and clarity Link to comment
shaftoe 0 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 I've been seeing this problem on Evernote 7.9 and it was slowly driving me nuts. Upgraded to Evernote 7.11 and I can confirm the problem is no longer there. Copy / pasting the same lines that previously (in v7.9) inserted a carriage return, no longer do so (in v7.11). I have High Sierra OS 10.13.6 btw. Link to comment
GameManiac101 5 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 It's back again after 6 years... I just got empty lines inserted when I convert from note to pdf or printing and it is very annoying! Link to comment
tokeriis 8 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 I am very unhappy to report that this problem with new lines inserted in list occurs in Evernote 10 for Mac as well. Link to comment
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