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Consider using ProseMirror for RichTextInput? #2108

Open kleinerpirat opened 2 years ago

kleinerpirat commented 2 years ago

While doing research for this forum topic, I discovered ProseMirror - a rich-text editor toolkit made by the same guy that wrote CodeMirror.

It has several very intriguing features that would fit well into Anki:

dae commented 2 years ago

The comments on https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/2025 apply here as well.

One other concern is that CodeMirror accounts for something like half the editor load time at the moment when there are lots of fields, so we'd want to check how it performs on larger notetypes.

kvn1351 commented 1 year ago

I still think that TinyMCE is the best choice. I've even had some success making it work but had to stop playing around with it for the time being.

FernandoBasso commented 1 year ago

We definitely need something that does some nice markup language. In that regard, nothing compares to Asciidoctor, but Markdown is the second best option as far as markup goes.

Asciidoctor is as simple as Markdown for the simple things, and has room for many more rich features if required/desirable.

From time to time people write a Markdown plugin that stops working after some Anki update, or just gets abandoned.

The default HMTL generated by Anki is not a very good one, and I think many people would love a nice markup language like Asciidoctor or Markdown supported natively.

navakelvin commented 1 year ago

The default HMTL generated by Anki is not a very good one, and I think many people would love a nice markup language like Asciidoctor or Markdown supported natively.

Markdown would be great. It is by far more popular.

FernandoBasso commented 1 year ago

Markdown would be great. It is by far more popular.

Yes, more popular, but not better than Asciidoctor (in terms of features). Asciidoctor lets you go easy (if you want), with a very minimal set of markup syntax (title, headings, lists, formatting code), but also allows for much (and I mean much) more if needed.

That said, I would be glad with Markdown too :)