Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Editing/Unbreak selection in the wikitext editor
Unbreak selection in the wikitext editor
- Problem: In the new Wikitext editor, selected text doesn't work with Navigation Popups, so that I can't tell whether a link I just inserted is to the right thing just by selecting it and reading the popup, and when I want to copy and paste text, I can't just select the text and use middle-button paste on Linux: the selected text somehow doesn't get into the primary selection.
- Who would benefit: Users of Navigation Popups who use the new wikitext editor
- Proposed solution: I'm not sure what is causing this, so I'm not sure how to fix it.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Slashme (talk) 22:03, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
Discussion
- @Slashme: Are you talking about the meta:2017 wikitext editor? Also Navigation Popups are not shown in any editor, but a similar looking link context is shown in the visual editor. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
- @ESanders (WMF): yes, I'm talking about the 2017 wikitext editor. Thanks for the correction! Without the Editing Toolbar, Navigation Popups does work. I've just tested it. When the editing toolbar is active, it doesn't work. --Slashme (talk) 12:43, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
- NavigationPopups is a community built gadget so I would suggest you talk to the maintainers about this feature request. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 12:14, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- @ESanders (WMF): yes, I'm talking about the 2017 wikitext editor. Thanks for the correction! Without the Editing Toolbar, Navigation Popups does work. I've just tested it. When the editing toolbar is active, it doesn't work. --Slashme (talk) 12:43, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
- Community Tech is happy to work on Navigation Popups, if maintainers will have us. But going directly to them might result in a quicker fix. Thanks for clarifying the issue. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 16:06, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- MusikAnimal (WMF) it's not just about the navigation popups issue: it's also that somehow selected text isn't being seen as selected by the operating system, so that I can't just select text and then middle-button paste it. It would be nice to know whether that's a bug, a feature, or an inevitable side effect of the toolbar. --Slashme (talk) 12:43, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I quite understand what the proposer is describing, but it really is remarkably problematic not to be able to move text around easily. Selection breaking is why I rarely use the Syntax Highlighter; it breaks the middle-click selection pasting in the editing pane. HLHJ (talk) 21:36, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
- MusikAnimal (WMF) it's not just about the navigation popups issue: it's also that somehow selected text isn't being seen as selected by the operating system, so that I can't just select text and then middle-button paste it. It would be nice to know whether that's a bug, a feature, or an inevitable side effect of the toolbar. --Slashme (talk) 12:43, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Voting
Support MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 18:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)- Support Kisnaak (talk) 21:24, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 04:25, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Kpjas (talk) 11:10, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support EEMIV (talk) 14:38, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
