Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200423160701/@comment-45310000-20200428235734

Hollowness wrote: I almost feel this is to beautify source editor or have it "visual editor-like". I don't want it beautiful, I want it easy to use, functional and faster. I see zero of that (but to be fair I haven't used it enough to see past the obvious flaws) at it's current state and it has nothing to do with just getting use to it getting use to slower and smaller space is simply tolerating it; not getting use to it. And in the end is an upgrade an upgrade if you are tolerating things? I am genuinely not understanding your issue with the source editor. It uses a non-proportional font, it breaks lines at exactly 121 characters, and I can scale it in my browser to fit the whole screen. Having done a lot of coding in Linux in text mode, I feel very at home with this editor, especially with its extremely smart syntax highlighting that can help me try to figure out wtf I was trying to do with a bunch of messy TemplateParser #if: and #switch: statements.

The add-ons are cool. I found one place where this was very useful, in writing a #redirect for a file system object that I didn't want typed to the internal file format extension in the name, that one is forced to contend with for image files in MediaWiki. To create the redirect for a file that doesn't yet exist in the file system, I type #redirect, space, then click Media in the toolbar, upload the image I wanted, insert and save, the redirect is written. (the trailing parameters are ignored in the redirect statement).