Tag DVFMTSC remaing in formated code

Since I started using DevFormater I’ve been running into a problem that sometimes, just randomly, a HTML comment tag “<!–DVFMTSC–>” appeared inside the formated CODE tag.

First it was so rare I was able to remove them manually, but today I ended with a post containing thousands of “<!–DVFMTSC–>” and even “<!??DVFMTSC??>”.

So I had to take and action and I’ve created a function to permanently remove them from the posts.

function fixDVFMTSC(text) {
	var newText = text;
	text = '';

	while (newText !== text) {
		text = newText;
		newText = text.replace(new RegExp('(<|<)!(-|?){2}DVFMTSC(-|?){2}(>|>)', 'g'), '');
	}

	return newText;
}

Then I’ve used thim method in file “\wp-content\plugins\devformatter\devfmt_editor.js” in function “this.parseEnd” changing line
return a1 + block + a4;
to
return a1 + fixDVFMTSC(block) + a4;

So if anyone runs into a similar problem, this may be the workaround.

But still does anyone know the real reason why this happens?

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