Cut and paste to and from plain text editor loses formatting
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From one of our PDEC members who is trying to edit a long, formatted description on hub.pde.cc, and expected wikitext syntax:
The killer argument for editing with syntax rather than wysiwyg is
that big contributors like to use their favorite text editor rather
than Wagn's wysiwyg editor (sorry, wagn developers, but world does
not need yet another editor - everybody already has his favorite one).
This way they are productive and they stay with local copy just in
case the wiki screws up and eats your text. Happens pretty often when
two people accidentally simultaneously edit the same page (do not yet
know what Wagn does in this situation, but I have learned to mistrust
wikis in this respect and am noot easily convinced otherwise).
Proposed fixes:
1. Allow use of traditional wiki syntax (e.g. mediawiki), or
2. Document and allow use of Wagn's internal syntax (I am pretty
certain Wagn uses some syntax to serialize rich text to
a database field).
The "fix" of editing in HTML is not particularly attractive as
the syntax is cumbersome and even more geeky than wiki syntax.
Furthermore, I'm pretty sure I can create using HTML constructs
that Wagn wysiwyg editor can not cope with. Possibly even that wagn
rendering can not cope with.
Until bidirectional cut and paste without loss of formatting
is supported, I cannot use Wagn for my projects. I hope
you understand the importance of this feature and how it
affects adoption.
--Sampo Kellomäki