My favourite gripe about text editing in Jira is that the ticket body and ticket comments require subtly different formatting mark-up, and the wysiwyg widgets for formatting are also ever-so-slightly different.

This results in a fun game of me trying out single backticks, triple backticks, braces, double braces, other miscellaneous punctuation symbols, and various indents before giving up and trying the formatting toolbar, only to waste another couple of minutes clicking around to see what works.

Somehow I can never remember what worked either, so I find myself repeating this ridiculous dance on at least a weekly basis.

Although IIRC, there was a recent update that at least harmonised the code formatting syntax between editors, although I can't remember if it actually worked....

> This results in a fun game of me trying out single backticks, triple backticks, braces, double braces, other miscellaneous punctuation symbols, and various indents before giving up and trying the formatting toolbar, only to waste another couple of minutes clicking around to see what works.

I thought I was the only one who is annoyed with this. Not only that, but the editor when you first create the ticket and the one used to later edit it are different too. I can't think of any sane technical reason that might explain using more than one rich text editor.

So frustrating! Not sure if it's just in team-managed projects, but they look to have fixed this, e.g Description field maintains a draft across page-loads, until you hit save now :)