SID-00938: Editor Frustrations...grrr

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:	Solaris 10 Update 8	Last update:	7 years ago

Is there a way to disable the default editor so you go directly into raw edit mode?

We are finding the default editor very buggy. Examples:

1) Trying to use verbatim tabs very inconsistent and buggy 2) When using tables, if I set left justification it always wraps the text located after (below) the table so that it appears to the right of the table.. No amount of paragraph or break tags would change this behavior. Even a horizontal rule with width set to 100% didn't work.

The editor also seems to change the text size/color so that it is interpreted differently and we found no way to undo this other than tediously canceling that edit session, going back into edit mode and trying to place your cursor somewhere else and trying again.

After 1 day of my team of seasoned SA's giving this twiki a road test the editor was the common area of frustration and thumbs down vote.

I am fighting hard to use twiki but the editor is the roadblock at this point.

-- RhuggaHarper - 2010-08-10

Discussion and Answer

TWiki uses the TinyMCEPlugin editor, which is also an open source project. We are aware of the limitations, partly due to the TWiki specific integration, partly due to the WYSIWYG editor capability (or lack thereof).

TWiki and TinyMCE are open source projects. Please consider contributing to open source. Joint efforts make a project better.

It is possible to disable the WYSIWYG editor. Details in WysiwygPlugin and TinyMCEPlugin.

You can also shield certain parts of text from the WYSIWYG editor: <sticky> Enclose text you do not want the WYSIWYG editor to touch in sticky tags while in raw edit (like this) </sticky>

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-08-11

For those who are interested in a solution still today: You can make the raw editor the default by putting

* Set EDITMETHOD = raw

on you personal page.

Did that myself as I hate the WYSIWYG editor (mostly, as it is really useful for editing content of large tables).

-- Detlef Marxsen - 2018-06-20

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