First, the posting 'should' display properly without having to use the Editor. Second, I didn't put any <p> elements in the post. All I did was copy/past the ERROR message as displayed on the screen.
So it seems that there is a 'bug' with the copy/paste functionality since when used to copy/paste elements from this Forum page, a significant disruption in expected behavior occurs.
Perhaps copy/paste 'should' strip out html code...
Please log the appropraite 'bug'.
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