⚓ T113535 Autolink doesn't take place when you finish a list item

The problem is the auto-link sequence is look for LinkRegex+Whitespace, which a newline isn't (it's a </paragraph> element). Fixing is not as simple as detecting LinkRegex+</paragraph> because that is also true before you press Enter, and while you still typing the link.

Conceptually you probably want to special case the user pressing enter somehow.

The special case that makes it work for paragraphs is https://github.com/wikimedia/VisualEditor/blob/master/src/ui/ve.ui.SequenceRegistry.js#L58

It's possible we can just extend that hack to handle lists, too. But I agree that manually triggering the sequence registry when enter is pressed (*before* the new list item/paragraph is inserted) would be a better fix (and the hack about could then be removed).

You'd have to be careful about the undo stack. Usually the sequence is "insert space", then "autolink", so that "undo" undoes the autolink first, then the "insert space". If we trigger the sequence registry before the insertion, then the first undo would undo the "enter", and you'd have to press undo a second time to undo the autolink. That inconsistency could be confusing.