https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49686

--- Comment #6 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > I'm ambivalent about whether we would ever let this go live, given how
> > complicated it would make editing for people that don't know wikitext -
> > consequently, marking as lowest priority for now.
> 
> You and I discussed this idea at some point (thanks for filing this as a bug,
> Oliver). The current issues I'm seeing with VisualEditor are that:
> 
> (1) it's much more time-consuming to add a link (i.e., typing "[[]]" is quick
> while finding and using the link dialog box is slow, especially multiple
> times); and
> 
> (2) it requires the use of a mouse to add a link. :-(

Not true, as discussed; I don't use the mouse to add links with VE (Ctrl+K plus
keyboard-based selection, as in other editors).

> Perhaps we need a "I'm old school" checkbox somewhere in VisualEditor. ;-)

If users are sufficiently new-school that they can't remember Ctrl+K I don't
think there's much hope for them. :-)

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