Can't view message edits

[HarHarLinks]

Steps to reproduce

1. click on the (edited) text after an edited message

Outcome

What did you expect?

show edit diff

What happened instead?

edited.mp4

The message in the video is publicly accessible in the TWIM room: https://matrix.to/#/!QQpfJfZvqxbCfeDgCj:matrix.org/$5RqkiA_deYhICPh4CJ95E48kMWeHcQSMd4RcYreH-XY?via=matrix.org&via=kde.org&via=envs.net

Operating system

arch

Application version

Element Nightly version: 2022030401 Olm version: 3.2.8

How did you install the app?

aur

Homeserver

1.53

Will you send logs?

No

[HarHarLinks]

Something weird happens when you repro this, then open settings and try to click outside of the settings modal to close it. Noticed when I copied the app version from settings.

[MTRNord]

Error log I am seeing on develop for this

[HarHarLinks]

This might actually be 2 issues:

1. element should not fail and just close the modal, but instead at least say how/why it fails
2. the message may or may not be to spec, as the author says

I did one edit in Fluffychat, one in Element-desktop and one in Element-android, I think. Testing, I call it. :-)

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I should note that I can view the diffs of other edited messages

[julianfoad]

All I can add is, it gets pretty tedious to see markdown rendered differently on different platforms, and then for various editors to mangle it when round-trip editing a message. Rather than hunting down specific edge cases, which could be an endless rabbit-hole, I would prefer this class of bugs to be addressed by any moves possible toward standardising markdown across platforms, even if that means choosing a markdown flavour that is better standardized over one that includes a cool feature.

[robintown]

@julianfoad That would be a different issue (element-hq/element-meta#1493 perhaps), as this one is just about the edit history dialog crashing.