Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31924693-20151119124848

I only use the source editor, as I find it easier to work with and the visual editor far too buggy. I suffer the problem I'm about to describe on multiple wikis; I first noticed it when editing MediaWiki:common.css on the Beatles Wiki, but I have today found that it affects the Template: namespace as well.

Editing of such pages (in the source editor at least) now has line numbering, and I suspect that the change needed to implement this has introduced a bug. What happens is that if I select a range (most usually the entire page, but this affects subranges as well), cut ([Ctrl]+[X]) doesn't do anything, and copy ([Ctrl]+[C]) copies only a single space, not the selected text. This of course makes editing of these pages far more difficult than it should be. 