User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-25653892-20141128235140

For me, the VisualEditor has generally been a great aid to editing pages. However, if I decide to edit HTML and stuff like that within the same edit, I have to use the Source mode, which I find intimidating despite the fact that I am familiar with wikitext.

The classic and comment editors both have a toolbar with some basic functions like formatting text and inserting media, even in Source mode. (The classic Source editor has some other buttons as well, such as to insert a gallery; and the classic Visual editor has options to indent, align text, undo, format as header, etc.) If such a toolbar could be added to the VE's Source editor, it would be greatly appreciated – especially once the classic editor is phased out.