Editing permalinks cuts off the last letter

[brendanmcoffey]

Whenever changing a permalink from within a page or post, if the permalink is changed from the area directly below the page/post title, and then the Update button clicked, the permalink is updated with the last character missing. If the permalink is changed and then OK is clicked, then the Update button, it updates properly.

It would be great if whenever the permalink input loses focus, it has the same result as clicking that OK button, but I suspect this is a bug that needs to be fixed anyway, so that clicking Update immediately after editing a permalink does not cut off any characters.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Confirmed. When keypress event is fired, this.value doesn't have the latest character yet:
​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/js/post.js#L619

[SergeyBiryukov]

Has been this way since the feature was introduced in [6633].

[toscho]

It is not just the last letter: If you shorten a permalink and hit update immediately, the changes are lost too, and the permalink stays as long as it was before your edit. Sometimes. Sometimes not.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to toscho:

It is not just the last letter: If you shorten a permalink and hit update immediately, the changes are lost too, and the permalink stays as long as it was before your edit.

I can only reproduce it with the difference of one letter (not necessarily the last one). The cause appears to be the same: when Delete or Backspace is pressed, keypress event is fired, but this.value still contains the old value.

[brendanmcoffey]

I see that there is a patch for this issue.. but I have noticed that the issue still persists in the latest nightly (3.6-beta1-24041)
I'm not sure how to commit a patch like this, but just reporting that the bug still exists.

[nacin]

In 24059:

Wait until keyup to set the slug input on the post page, otherwise the final character is not stored. props SergeyBiryukov, fixes #23613.