From f4938f9d118d0a670e9ae6619f207787a97381bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Windels <brunow@matrix.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 15:17:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dont format empty ranges

---
 src/components/views/rooms/BasicMessageComposer.js | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/components/views/rooms/BasicMessageComposer.js b/src/components/views/rooms/BasicMessageComposer.js
index 3d2b96f773..36e142c0ea 100644
--- a/src/components/views/rooms/BasicMessageComposer.js
+++ b/src/components/views/rooms/BasicMessageComposer.js
@@ -434,6 +434,9 @@ export default class BasicMessageEditor extends React.Component {
             this._editorRef,
             this.props.model,
             document.getSelection());
+        if (range.length === 0) {
+            return;
+        }
         switch (action) {
             case "bold":
                 formatInline(range, "**");