I'm trying this out and first notice that unlike the old editor, I don't have access to previously-named references (the "Named references" button in the old editor). That was an extremely useful feature. Are there plans to reinclude it?
Also I'm wondering if anyone has been developing some sort of tool to save edits before clicking "Publish", sort-of what the extension Lazarus does (which doesn't work on my browser). This would be all sorts of useful and reduce stress so so much.
Thanks for trying it out and letting me know what you think. (Really.)
I don't think that there are any plans to implement the "Named references" feature from the 2010 WikiEditor or the "Re-use" button from the visual mode. In general, if it works by scanning the raw wikitext, then it's not on the team's priority list. If you haven't used the search feature in the visual mode's Cite > Re-use tool, then you might want to flip over to the visual mode sometime and have a look.
There is a plan to deal with auto-saving. You can read about it in phab:T57370 and related tasks. I don't know exactly when it will happen (probably not very soon, but maybe during the next year), but I can see all kinds of advantages, from the laptop battery dying to working offline.
Hey thanks - that Visual Editor functionality is nice! Not sure if I'd be faster with the editor in general but I should try more. And cool thanks for linking the auto-saving task page. Will respond to this feedback page as other problems arrive, though right now I'm not using it because of that ctrl-f problem with the syntax highlighting :/
