Last modified: 2014-11-10 11:18:06 UTC
I dug deeper after filing bug 73201. 1. Type "abcdef". 2. Make "ab" italic. 3. Make "ef" italic. 4. Make "bcde" a link. Result: ''a[[bcde|b]]''[[bcde|cd''e'']]''f'' Expected: ''a''[[bcde|''b''cd''e'']]''f'' The result doesn't seem to depend on the order of operations here. VisualEditor should avoid splitting link annotations.
(In reply to Bartosz Dziewoński from comment #0) > 3. Make "ef" italic. Actually, you can skip this step, and still get the "split link" effect.
This is essentially also a duplicate of bug 50098; marking as a subsidiary though in case there are specific concerns.