Topic on Talk:2017 wikitext editor

It doesn't!

justifying text in a syntax editor is a bad idea.

Well, I'm inclined to agree with you. But why do you post this?

because text is justified in the 2017 editor. you end up with

{{cite book|      auth|iijj    |iji|                                 1999}}

Please point to an example page where this happens?

I guess its not that big a deal. It mainly happens with long urls. An extreme example in my sandbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guccisamsclub/sandbox

I don't see anything unusual in your sandbox. The wikitext is not justified, nor is it oddly spaced.

see this: https://postimg.org/image/x32vwctil/

I'm using Chrome on Windows.

Do you see this when you open the page, or only when you copy/paste those lines? Also, what version of Chrome/Windows are you using?

I see it when I enter the source editor. win 10 / chrome 55.0.2883.87 m (64-bit)

thx

I don't see that with that OS and browser. Can you try in an incognito window/ from different browser? Trying to figure out if you may have something installed that justifies text for you.

seems like a userscript or some other setting is messing with it. tried a different account and the problem is not there. sorry.

It's ok, glad you figured that out.