Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Feedback for the character inserter/reply (32)

They did look at the existing system, and decided to ignore it completely and make sure that the new one couldn't do anything the old one could. And then they and you were surprised when the feedback was so scathing?

That you wanted to add possibilities not available in wikitext is fine, but that is not an excuse to remove the most basic needs of a character insertor. Or was there some bugzilla entry that said "please make the character insertor single entry only"?

Did anyone, at any time, make an analysis of what a character insertor is needed for? What the few basic functionalities are? Can you link to that document?