It's taken me to notice until now but use of discussion tools loses me access to the CharInert gadget on en:wp so I have to remember all markup that I wish to use rather than having one-click access to useful markup functions. Nthep (talk) 17:17, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for this note, Nthep. Which items in CharInsert do you use the most? I use the items for Extension:Translate (and it might be a good thing: I was typing one by hand the other day, and a tag that should have said <translate> came out of my fingers as <strangle>, which kind of sums up my feelings about it). I don't use much else. What's most useful to you?
Special characters like endash, emadash, greater equal to etc then markup phrases like nowiki, code, sup, sub, strikethorugh, non-breaking space. Occasional use of accented letters. Nthep (talk) 21:29, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Nthep, character formatting such as sup, sub, and strikethrough are available now in the visual mode, and should be available soon in the wikitext source mode. How often do you use non-breaking spaces on a talk page?
@Neitram, I believe you had a similar problem.
only when demonstrating their use
Partial progress: There is now a toolbar in the wikitext 'source' mode. It still doesn't include the special characters. If you want to try out the toolbar for the wikitext source mode, go to the end of Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing on your home wiki and tick the box for "Enable experimental tools in the quick replying and quick topic adding features' source modes"