New post editor panel

Meta
1

I’ve noticed (after some pause in contributing) that the Discourse changed the editor panel so the raw input and preview are now combined into a single panel. While it may seem advanced and smart, I have already encountered weird behavior when e.g. block-quoted text got auto-reformatted after adding a few (four?) spaces at the beginning. Apparently there is no undo button but luckily, Ctrl-Zworks as undo. Also, for such an autoreformatted text one see a drop-down menu with many formats (fortran, c, xmletc.) but no simple text (same occurs after entering three backquotes)

Is it possible to switch to the previous two-panel editing?

2

The first button in the toolbar does precisely that (i.e., toggling between the two modes). Hopefully, it won’t go away.

1 Like
3

Silly me, thank you. I looked at “A B I” letters/buttons in the toolbar and somehow presumed all three are style changing tools. :grinning_face:

4

It seems to remember that if you click it. Yes, the only reliable way is to type in Markdown directly.

5

I have also had problems the last couple of days with copying fortran code from my browser window into my text editor window. Blocks of text that are selected disappear, and there are sometimes some extra characters added. Is anyone else seeing this behavior? Is this a related problem?

6

This issue looks relevant:

For now, the best we can do is pay attention to use the Markdown mode:

image

1 Like
7

Not sure of the cause, but have been having cut-and-paste issues as well directly using the mouse. The editor and browser have upload and save-as functions that do not seem to truncate. If I am grabbing a section of Discourse I tend to use TIU browsers as the easiest method lately. If you have lynx or md3 or links or … you can do things like

lynx -dump https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/new-post-editor-panel/9986 > discourse.txt

from the command line in GNU/Linux or WSL or CygWin.

1 Like