If I try to edit a number in a {{formatnum:…}}, the VisualEditor displays the template’s edition window, saying it is (for example) the 'formatnum:959719' template, without any parameter. So if I want to change the number, I need to remove the 'template' and then to add a new one, for example 'formatnum:958719'.
The editor should allow changing the number without having to remove the 'template'.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T51954 Provide a neater way to edit transclusions that do not take a pipe (e.g. {{formatnum:…}}, {{lc:…}}, {{int:…}}, {{#dateformat:…}}}) | |||
| Open | None | T55413 TemplateData: Consider support for non-template transclusions (magic words, parser functions) | |||
| Open | None | T327347 Change of section tags when edit with the visual editor |
"{{formatnum:…}} is not a template" - true
For this, Parsoid takes wikitext like:
This was {{formatnum:1234567890}} years ago.… and gives us HTML of:
<p data-parsoid="…">This was <span about="#mwt1" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-mw="{'target':{'wt':'formatnum:1234567890','function':'formatnum'}" data-parsoid="…">1,234,567,890</span> years ago.</p>
… so maybe we'd want to special-case on 'function':'formatnum' so that they're easier to edit?
Was hit by this limitation when I was editing an article now. Couldn't find any way to edit the number except to delete it, so I changed the title to reflect that.
Thanks for the input, but please don't make bugs less general. You can add further examples of how they affect you, but that should be as a comment or in the description, not removing other things that are already covered by this task. For instance, this also applies to the #dateformat, lc, and int transclusion objects.
Related: T204370: Behavior switch/magic word uniformity and T204371: Replace initial colon in (hash-prefixed) parser function invocation with vertical bar, although VE would probably still have to know enough to translate the 'old style' syntax into the newer uniform syntax.
Is there any way to put this on the agenda? This bug is already 10 years old. In the Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, we use {{formatnum:}} even in normal text in articles, and like Danmichaelo said above, the only way to edit such numbers in Visual Editor is to delete the number and insert the new number (and then it won't have the proper formatting).