From 3e9be0155e0a85fd6bd1d3395d8b82891a32d392 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien Elmes <git@ichi2.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:18:24 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] preserve newlines when pasting plain text

---
 aqt/editor.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/aqt/editor.py b/aqt/editor.py
index a97c31511..372ded35b 100644
--- a/aqt/editor.py
+++ b/aqt/editor.py
@@ -851,6 +851,7 @@ class EditorWebView(AnkiWebView):
 
         # normal text; convert it to HTML
         txt = html.escape(txt)
+        txt = txt.replace("\n", "<br>")
         return txt
 
     def _processHtml(self, mime):