Unable to prevent paragraph block auto transforms

[pattonwebz]

When creating a new paragraph it is possible to transform it into a list by starting it with an asterisk. It is however not possible to create a paragraph that starts with an asterisk because it is always transformed and it is not possible to transform back to a paragraph without loosing the asterisk.

This same behaviour also happens with quotes as well I hear.

To reproduce

1. Create a new paragraph block.
2. Start the paragraph with an asterisk and press space - paragraph transforms to list.
3. Transform the list back to a paragraph and the asterisk is gone.

Expected behavior
Ability to prevent the transform somehow or revert it without character losses.

Screenshots

Notes
One suggestion was that this could work similar to the double ## used to transform paragraph to heading and another suggestion was shift + space

[senadir]

I'm not sure if I can call this a bug or a feature request, I'm leaving it up to @ellatrix & @mapk to decide

[pattonwebz]

Yeah I clicked back and forth between those a couple times when opening this, also uncertain if it's a bug or a feature.

For some added context though about why I checked bug:

This issue I hit early on when writing my post today and to fix it I flicked to the html editor. I did not return back to blocks - I wrote the rest of the post in html.

I only mentioned this in the core-editor channel because I realised the fact I stayed in the html editor and did not revert back to blocks put me in a situation where the new editor was not helping me - it was only in my way. That's the opposite of what I want users to be doing and I guess I should also want the same of myself 😛

[mcsf]

#14776 was merged recently and sought to address this problem using Undo. @pattonwebz, would it solve your problem?

[pattonwebz]

I will try pull the latest branch and test this when I get a chance. Looks like that would solve the problem I ran into :)

[senadir]

it's available in 6.4 and wordpress.com as I've tested, I'm going to close this for now since it's already solved, feel free to open back if anything came up