Topic on Talk:2017 wikitext editor

Guccisamsclub (talkcontribs)

autocomplete for outline and bullet points. every decent markup editor has this feature.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

What's the name of your favorite markup editor?

Guccisamsclub (talkcontribs)

I don't really have one. I've used Stackedit, Typora etc. for markdown, and Dokuwiki for keeping track of everything. Even Dokuwiki, especially with the codemirror plugin, is much nicer than the mediawiki's textbox. It too has the auto-bullet feature, bracket matching, and keyboard shortcuts for a bunch of formatting. Text editors often have auto bullets for various markups, but you have to install plugins, and they always have brace matching out of the box. I guess the gold-standard of markup editors would be Emacs org-mode, though haven't used it beyond experimentation. I really hope the 2017 editor will be a modern text editor, instead of just a bigger textbox.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

VisualEditor has all of these features – but some of them, such as automatically extending your bulleted list, are only available in the visual mode.

Guccisamsclub (talkcontribs)

i like the the visual editor. but it's a bit slow—slower than code-mirror would be—and and has annoying popups. it certainly beats editing spaghetti markup in a circa 2000 text-box. i'm currently playing around with org-mode and the way it highlights markup is basically correct (although typora's way is probably easiest, though it can be finicky due to incomlete features). take a look at typora for inspiration, though i get that it would be an issue on older pc's without some major optimization.

one idea: why not make good desktop editor/viewer at some point? it could make for a decent editing experience for people with old pc's, crap internet, eyesight problems etc. it would also offer nicer features without the performance penalties.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I believe that an offline editing system is being considered, e.g., at phab:T106898. However, I don't expect it to happen soon.

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