Switching from an editor to another on an existing page | Voters

Switching from an editor to another on an existing page

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Jeremy Coatelen

As a page editor, I want to be able to select another editor to edit a page, so that I can use my favorite editor on any page.

October 29, 2019

Nicolas Giard

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Nicolas Giard

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in progress

This feature request is being sponsored and will be released in the coming days as an hotfix for 2.5.

Jesse Allhands

Nicolas Giard: Very excited for this feature. Thanks to you and the sponsor!

ikwtif

Nicolas Giard: nice! This is going to be a great help in formatting some pages! Thanks for all the hard work!

Jacek Sławiec

Nicolas Giard: Wow <3

just_insane

Nicolas Giard: I see this update allows to manually convert a page to a different editor.

Is there going to be a feature to switch editors on the fly so that pages don’t have to be manually converted back and forth?

Nicolas Giard

just_insane: That's not possible as they are in completely different formats.

just_insane

Nicolas Giard: Ah, I was hoping to see something more along the lines of this PR.
As other comments have said, making the WYSIWYG editor more like GitHub’s editor would be appreciated, as it is markdown on the backend.
The feature differences between the current editors is also an annoyance at times, which is what I was hoping this would resolve.

Otto Berger

Nicolas Giard: right. Why use different formats in the first place? The source should always be only markdown. But should offer a visual editor for the markdown.

Or maybe do some magic like Mediawiki does with their visual editor? 🙂

Nicolas Giard

Otto Berger: You assume everybody uses markdown or wants to use markdown which is simply not the case.

Otto Berger

Nicolas Giard: I guess you are right. I am probably too used to other wikis (Dokuwiki, Mediawiki) which either invent their own markup for the source of articles or choose a existing one like markdown.

I‘m still new to wiki.js. Does this mean that the source of pages are stored as html with the visual editor and when using markdown editor they are stored as markdown?

Nicolas Giard

Otto Berger: correct

Otto Berger

I see it's planned now. may I ask for when or what version? 3.0? or a alter3.X? 4.0?

Nicolas Giard

Otto Berger: 3.0

Otto Berger

Nicolas Giard: it US really awesome the conversion between formats comes now earlier through a hotfix. Thanks to the generous sponsor!
But let’s maybe leave this feature request open and not mark it as completed. Reason is that I believe what really was requested here is a way to simply be able to switch between markdown and the visual editor at any time and on the fly. 
Do you think this is still possible for 3.0 or maybe a later version or will this never going to happen?
Thanks for your hard and beautiful work!

Scott Gomes

I'm involved in a project right now where the ability to change between visual editor and markdown or html would make a huge difference for us. We have contributors at various levels when it comes to coding pages, so having the ability for someone to create a page in one editor and another to edit in another editor would be very welcome. I agree with others here, this should be a given. Any progress on this functionality?

David Robert Lewis

At very least some warning about being stuck with your choice of editor when creating the page ...

Jordan Dayton

David Robert Lewis: Is this what you are asking for?

Jim Bridger

I'd prefer to just be able to force users to use a specific one, rather than let them choose.

Jordan Dayton

It looks like this is being worked on... https://github.com/Requarks/wiki/pull/2190
I don't have any idea of an ETA. Do you have any idea Regev Brody? Great work on this, btw!
Just curious... how difficult would it be to add a button to the WYSIWYG so that you can toggle, with one-click, between html and WYSIWYG views?

Regev Brody

Jordan Dayton: thanks! @NGPixel is in control of ETA and I can't get a response from him. About what you are asking should be fairly simple and can be achieved in a different feature request as it is not directly correlated to this one

Regev Brody

please upvote PR https://github.com/Requarks/wiki/pull/1935

Joe Andrieu

Yes, please. Even simply editing the source would be useful. I can appreciate that if the underlying page is html v markdown, switching from WYSIWYG to markdown editing is complicated. However, I can

view

the source--which has helped me identify some formatting errors--but I can't edit the source, which would be the easiest fix for this situation.

Jordan Dayton

Joe Andrieu: Yes, I'm with you!
We keep running into walls b/c each of the three editors WYSIWYG/html/markdown all have pros/cons. 
If we could just have the ability to "view/edit source html" via the WYSIWYG, that would be perfect. This would allow for the fine tuning we need, like adding custom styles, etc.

Maxime Chambonnet

Jordan Dayton: would be neat... also contributing directly to ckeditor repo is a sensitive way to go.

Interesting Stuff

This is a crucial functionality imo.

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