edits are discarded by mastodon web ui

[jhnc]

observed behaviour

1. access mastodon edit form: https://[instance-name]/publish
2. insert some initial text into form
3. invoke textern (my config = ["xfce4-terminal","--disable-server","--geometry=100x40","-x","vi"])
4. insert some text in editor
5. save (:w) - new text appears in mastodon web page
6. quit (:q) - text in mastodon reverts to initial text

expected behaviour

1-5 as observed; 6 should not cause reversion.

notes

• text also discarded when using ["xterm","-e","vi"] or ["mousepad"]
• observed with mastodon 4.0.2; unsure if affects other versions
• I will also report this to mastodon, in case this is not something textern can fix

[jhnc]

Still affects mastodon UI at version 4.2.1

Closed by mastodon as "not planned" whatever that means: mastodon/mastodon#21063