Susmita/Rajib wrote: > From: Michel Verdier <mv...@free.fr> > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:54:35 +0200 > Message-id: <[🔎] 87edmdaql0....@free.fr> > In-reply-to: <[🔎] > caeg4czxryyivofecor24n8o8bkbrvvuc+hhu2mmrzwyjrlj...@mail.gmail.com> > References: <[🔎] > caeg4czxryyivofecor24n8o8bkbrvvuc+hhu2mmrzwyjrlj...@mail.gmail.com> > > [ ... ] > > emacs ? > > Thank you, Mr. Verdier, for replying to my post. > > So far as I am aware, text editors like Gedit, Vim, Emacs, Sublime > Text, et al, will not provide a WYSIWYG editing experience like a > word processor. One'll need to manually apply the wiki formatting tags > to achieve the desired formatting in the plain text files.
I'm going to break my general rule against replying to Susmita/Rajib because this is an important point for anyone else reading. A text editor is a tool that edits text. All text editors are WYSYIWYG because they are not building some alternate representation of a document: they are for working on the underlying truth. If you are working in a document format which is entirely represented in a text format -- for example, Markdown, HTML, ReStructured Text, YAML, C code and XPM graphics -- then you can use a text editor to create or edit that format, but you will need some other tool to produce and/or view the final output. Advanced text editors have features to enable you to call the appropriate tool and run it on demand. If you want to have realtime production of the final output as you change things in the underlying file, that may or may not be accomplishable with a text editor or an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). A specialized tool that works on non-text formats -- for example: OOXML, RTF, PNG, GIF, JPEG, PDF -- may incorporate a text editor function, but is not generally referred to as a text editor. The GNU Image Manipulation Program is not a text editor. LibreOffice is not a text editor. (It has a word processor component with desktop publishing features.) The thing that I think is being asked for here is a Wiki editor, though I don't know which of the hundred wiki dialects is desired. They tend to be integrated into full-fledged wikis, e.g. dokuwiki and mediawiki, and to be absent or of limited functionality in smaller wiki projects. -dsr-
