Topic on Extension talk:CodeMirror

I use this feature with the old wikitext editor.

• It loads significantly slower than before, which is annoying. However, it is clear to me that parsing wikitext must take some time.
• The plain wikitext editor has a very useful feature: wikilinks can be followed by Ctrl+Click, so that I can look them up while editing. This is missing in CodeMirror and now, during this test, I'm recognizing how much I have relied on this possibility.

Hi @Gżdacz, thanks for the feedback. About the slowness - the longer the page, the slower it will take to load with CodeMirror. If the page is long, it might be best to turn off CodeMirror (using the toolbar icon) and load plain wikitext.

About the second point - this is very interesting because I'd not heard of this feature before. I tried this on both English and Polish wikipedias and couldn't get it to work. I'm guessing it might be a User script or Gadget perhaps which might have broken when we launched CodeMirror.

Well, it simply works for me and I do not remember any time when it didn't. I have also checked my preferences and no one of them seems to be responsible for this functionality. @Matmarex:?

@Gżdacz: Are you using the wikEd gadget?

@Kaldari: Yes, I am.

A quick test has shown, that wikiEd indeed provides this functionality.

That feature is specific to the wikEd gadget and doesn't exist in CodeMirror. If you're using wikEd, you probably don't really have any use for CodeMirror, as all it does is provide syntax highlighting, which wikEd already does. There are some wikis that don't have wikEd available, though. In those cases, I'm afraid there isn't any way to get the control-click feature.