On February 20, 2017 08:34:35 PM James Forrester wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 at 10:42 John P. New <wikit...@hazelden.ca> wrote: > > > I've set up MW 1.28 with VE/parsoid and everything is working well > > > > However, when I edit in (any) wikitext editor and try to switch to VE, I > > am presented with a dialog with only 2 choices: "Cancel" or "Discard my > > changes and switch". Diving into the code I found I could change > > ve.init.MWVESwitchConfirmDialog.js (line 58) from > > modes: [ 'restbase' ] > > to > > modes: [ 'restbase', 'simple' ] > > > > that adds "Switch" to the dialog box, but when this option is chosen, any > > changes made in the wikitext editor are lost. > > > > Is this a mis-configuration on my part or is switching from edited > > wikitext to VE not supported? Do I need a RESTbase server to implement this > > functionality? > > > > RESTbase provides the switching-with-changes ability, yes. There's a reason > VE doesn't offer switching-with-changes without it. :-) In general, > fiddling with the code inside an extension is always going to break. > > J. > Thanks for the clarification.
Should this be noted in the setup instructions for Visual Editor? It would have saved me a lot of head-scratching and investigation time. And yes, I realize messing with the code will break things, but it was my way of finding out that I might need a RESTbase server and to point to where my problem was. :-) John _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
