On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:34 AM, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)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