https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50093
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Bug ID: 50093
Summary: Idea: Use [[ as a 'hotkey' trigger for opening the
'create a link' dialog
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Editing Tools
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Some experienced editors are complaining that writing in VE is slower for them
now, because they have to use the toolbar. They are requesting to be able to
use wikicode from within the VE.
Instead of fully introducing wikicode into the edit mode as some people have
requested, I have a different idea. What if we use [[ and {{ as hotkeys to open
the insert link and insert template dialogs ? When detecting this combination,
the editor could automatically remove this characters from the editsurface and
present the dialog to the user. Then the user can keep typing, greatly speeding
up the time to author a sentence.
These are by far the most used insertions I presume. File and external links
are much less common, and I don't see how you could easily have a hotkey like
supo
I think that would solve much of the concerns that have been mentioned.
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