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diff --git a/doc/todo/mdwn_preview.mdwn b/doc/todo/mdwn_preview.mdwn index c20314c28..fa69bad47 100644 --- a/doc/todo/mdwn_preview.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/mdwn_preview.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,37 @@ +ikiwiki needs a wysiwyg markdown editor. While there have been tries using +WMD etc, they are not fully satisfactory, and also the license of +everything around WMD is [[unclear|plugins/wmd/discussion]]. + +[Hallo](https://github.com/bergie/hallo) is the closest to a solution +I've seen. +The user can edit the page by clicking on the html part they want to change +and typing. Selecting text pops up a toolbar to modify it. + +[Demo of Hallo with live WYSIWYG markdown editing](http://bergie.github.com/hallo/markdown.html) +This demo uses showdown, and I still don't know what the license of +showdown is. However, the showdown part seems to only be to handle the live +conversion from the markdown source in the edit field to the html. The +(edited) html to markdown conversion is accomplished by Hallo. + +So, ikiwiki could use this in a page edit UI that does not show the +markdown at all. The user would edit the live page, entirely in wysiwyg +mode, and on saving hallo's generated markdown would be saved. Probably +there would need to be a button to bring up the current markdown editor +too, but without showdown, changes in it would not immediatly preview, so +it'd make sense to disable hallo when the editor is visible. + +Issue: Ikiwiki directives can generate html. We would not want that html to +be editable by halo and converted back to markdown. Also, the directives +need to appear in the html so users can edit them. This seems to call for a +special page rendering mode for editing, in which directives are either not +expanded, or are expanded but the generated html wrapped in some tag that +makes hallo refuse to edit it (which would probably require that feature be +added to hallo, currently it acts on all blocks with `class=editable`), +or otherwise allows it to be stripped out at save time. --[[Joey]] + +### old discussion + + The [StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/) site uses markdown for markup. It has a fancy javascript thing for showing a real-time preview of what the user is editing. It would be nice if ikiwiki could support this, too. The thing they |