RE: Need comments on rich text editor at Vim Tips wiki

Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
>> I need people to quickly say "*Remove ~~~~" or "*Keep ~~~~"
>> (click "edit" on the Comments line at the bottom) at
>> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:JohnBeckett/Rich_text_editor
>
> Try this setting (after logging in):
> Special pages->Preferences->Editing->"Enable Rich Text Editing"
>
> First enable it Save and then go back and disable it.
>
> I think it is a mistake to show the rich text editor when
> this setting is still disabled.

Thanks for the report (I think you are saying that the RTE still
lingers even if disabled after having once enabled it). I am not
going to try your experiment because I did hear a vague
suggestion that once enabled, that disabling the RTE actually
configures the normal wikitext edit box to open first, with an
option to choose the RTE. That could be an unfounded rumour, or
it might just be a caching issue, but it's not relevant to
whether the RTE should apply to the whole wiki.

It seems obvious that a person who is not comfortable when
editing wikitext should not be editing a tip on Vim, but that
won't be clear to non-Vim users, and I'm not going to approach
Wikia without evidence of a consensus from several people that
the RTE should be removed.

John

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