Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Editing/Continue development of wikitext syntax highlighter (CodeMirror extension)

Random proposal ►◄ Editing

Continue development of wikitext syntax highlighter (CodeMirror extension)

• Problem: As a result of #6 wish in 2016 Community Wishlist Survey, the new wikitext syntaxt highlighter, aka CodeMirror extension, was introduced as beta feature. But the development is far from done. There is for example no support for RTL wikis yet and there is still a handful of bugs to solve.

• Who would benefit: article editors, template editors

• Proposed solution: Continue development. Add support for RTL wikis. Solve bugs (see Phabricator tickets below).

• More comments: Article editors, template editors.

• Phabricator tickets: T170001 (RTL problems), T171374, T179287, T177175, T170238, T175223, T177043, T179321, T172456 (various bugs)

• Proposer: Vachovec1 (talk) 17:23, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

• Translations: none yet

Voting

•  Support As proposer. There is still a lot of work to be done and it would be very sad if this very useful tool would be left half-baked. Vachovec1 (talk) 21:23, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support —viciarg⁴¹⁴ 08:16, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:06, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 21:49, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Chico Venancio (talk) 21:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Shizhao (talk) 03:02, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 17:46, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Keith D (talk) 21:17, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I tried using this and it worked really well and was helpful on short articles, but killed my browser on long ones. Rhinopias (talk) 21:38, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Wouldn't edit without it now! Nick Moyes (talk) 22:32, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - Evad37 (talk) 23:48, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support — putnik 01:23, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Nihlus 05:13, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support M11rtinb (talk) 09:43, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Dominic Z. (talk) 16:41, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I love syntax highlighter and use it all the time. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:49, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Dromedar61 (talk) 20:57, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Nabla (talk) 21:27, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support DonBarredora (talk) 01:30, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support JAn Dudík (talk) 06:22, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ynhockey (talk) 17:09, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 11:22, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 14:33, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:53, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I went back to Remember the dot's highlighter due to multiple bugs / incompatibilities in this implementation. Waldir (talk) 10:33, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support An Owl Called Josh (talk) 14:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Anthonyhcole (talk) 12:07, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Guycn2 · ☎ 19:23, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support NessieVL (talk) 18:44, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support As a user of an RTL wiki, I definitely support. Orielno (talk) 22:05, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ca2james (talk) 03:20, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support the wub "?!" 00:33, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ahm masum (talk) 08:57, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support HLHJ (talk) 02:55, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support RandomDSdevel (talk) 01:21, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support X:: black ::X (talk) 01:40, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support — Vort (talk) 07:08, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Facenapalm (talk) 12:59, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support A useful feature, but last time I tried it it tended to be sluggish, so optimizing it further might be a good thing to do.— Luchesar • T/C 13:40, 11 December 2017 (UTC)