If someone is starting to type a normal bullet list. It could be nice to automatically make it a real list instead of flashing a warning. Also perhaps similar for numbered lists
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52644
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Create ve.ui.Sequence which matches commands to typed text | VisualEditor/VisualEditor | master | +278 -14 |
This is standard behaviour in at least LibreOffice Writer and I think Microsoft Word too, so it's likely this will be attempted by people who have no knowledge of what wikitext is.
en.wp user Ruud Koot comments:
"People have come to expect certain things of a WYSIWIG editor: when I input a bulleted list by starting my line with an asterisk (ironically, just as you would in the source editor), the editor should automatically convert this to a proper bulleted list; [...] Microsoft Word provides exactly this kind of functionally. For an experienced editor like me, having to using my mouse to click a toolbar button takes more time than inputting this in the source editor. A novice editor, who likely is experienced with Microsoft Work, might expect the editor to be this intelligent and not even recognize the toolbar buttons for what they are."
Change 175334 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
Create ve.ui.Sequence which matches commands to typed text
Change 175334 merged by jenkins-bot:
Create ve.ui.Sequence which matches commands to typed text
Verified in betalabs.
Typing asterisk will be converted into a bulleted list entry.
Typing 1. (with a dot and some following txt) will be converted into a numbered list entry.