On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:34 AM, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are good reasons why users want to turn off VE and the most > important reason are not what most people in the thread seems to > think. Users that have learned to use a crappy direct editing user > interface tend to be faster on using that interface than more modern > WYSIWYG editors. I tried to make a few test edits whit carefully > planned actions and I could not edit as fast with VE as with the old > crappy edit page. I think this is quite common. When editors tries to > edit with the new editor they experience this and gets the feeling > that VE itself is sluggish, but the real reason is that the user > interactions slows down. The difference in editing speed i visible > even at ordinary text with only minor wikicode, but as the amount of > wikicode increases the diference grows. I would love if the Visual Editor could have also wikicode edition capabilities with proper synthax highlighting. There is the Dot's syntax highlighter as a gadget but it doesn't come close to other code highlighters like Notepad++ Would that be possible? Micru _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
