BUG: Pasted text is reformatted causing issues with asking about specific formatted text

[trinode]

Describe the bug

Just to be clear the problem is that autoformatting is allowed, resulting in the app applying smart dashes and smart quotes to text, undesirable if wanting to deal with precise text. I have been able to turn off smart dashes system wide as a work around but that's degraded the experience in apps where those feature make sense.

I'm for example pasing an error for example when asking about a mermaid diagram:

text in clipboard:

Parse error on line 2
    CI_CD_Pipeline[CI/CD Pipeline] --> Staging_Blue[Staging (Blue Environment)]
                                                   ^

Then you can see it correctly formated for a fraction of a second before it converts the double hyphen to an emdash, and then the model points out mermaid diagrams shouldn't use emdashes but double hyphens instead of looking at the actual issue.

Text after pasting / auto formatting:

Parse error on line 2
    CI_CD_Pipeline[CI/CD Pipeline] —> Staging_Blue[Staging (Blue Environment)]

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
paste the above text into the prompt box, notice the double hyphen has become an emdash

Expected behavior
A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Tahoe 26.2

[johnbean393]

I'm unable to reproduce this issue. Perhaps you could check your macOS autocorrect settings?

Will leave this issue open in case others encounter the same issue.

[trinode]

Hi there, sorry yes I'm not sure I was clear in the initial post.

The problem is that the textbox respects the system setting, forcing people to turn them off globally meaning they have to disable it everywhere in order to be able to paste code into sidekick.

It'd be good to either have sidekick never allow smart quotes / dashes regardless of system settings, or have an option in the app to override the system default so that other apps where we're writing prose can still use smart quotes, but not have sidekick change whatever you paste / type in,

In swift there are properties you can set to stop macos being "helpful" 😂:

textView.isAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled = false
textView.isAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled = false
textView.isAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled = false
textView.isAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled = false
textView.isContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled = false 

I checked for the availability of those properties in Views/Chat/Conversation/Controls/Input Field/MultiLineTextEditor (Screenshot), assuming that's the right one, it seems like it should work fine.