Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Editing/Syntax highlighting of special characters
Syntax highlighting of special characters
- Problem: In the new Wikipedia 2017 wikitext editor, special characters are not highlighted (for example, em- and en- dashes). In the old editor, the em- and en- dash had either an m or n above the dash to let the editor know which one was in use. In addition, the em- and en- dashes look similar in the new editor. I find myself deleting the old dash and inserting the correct one to make sure the correct one is in the final copy.
- While the minus special character looks slightly different than the em- or en- dash, it is hard to see on its own. The minus special character is important for articles with mathematical formulas.
- Who would benefit: Anyone who edits Wikipedia and is concerned about the correct use of special characters, specifically the dashes.
- Proposed solution: Some sort of syntax highlighting for special characters. How it was done before is good enough for me. Others might have a better solution—just don't make it so you have to hover the mouse pointer over it.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets: phab:T196934
- Proposer: PopularOutcast (talk) 21:52, 29 October 2018 (UTC)