Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Editor strips out manual anchors/reply (2)

Sorry, I wrote that too succinctly. I wasn't thinking that VisualEditor should do automatic conversion. I was thinking more in terms of a "global search and replace" that a bot could do across enwiki to find instances of inside headings and convert them into anchors at the beginning of the heading. The problem with allowing html elements in source markup is that their purpose isn't clear, which makes it difficult to repurpose the content in another format (e.g. pdf or e-book). It also gives headaches to the VE developers, but I don't need to tell you that! There's a similar issue with comments (e.g. ==Organisation== ). IMO we'd be better off having a template specifically for that purpose, that displays a message during editing but is hidden in the saved article.