Some experienced editors are complaining that writing in VE is slower for them now, because they have to use the toolbar. They are requesting to be able to use wikicode from within the VE.
Instead of fully introducing wikicode into the edit mode as some people have requested, I have a different idea. What if we use [[ and {{ as hotkeys to open the insert link and insert template dialogs ? When detecting this combination, the editor could automatically remove this characters from the editsurface and present the dialog to the user. Then the user can keep typing, greatly speeding up the time to author a sentence.
These are by far the most used insertions I presume. File and external links are much less common, and I don't see how you could easily have a hotkey like supo
I think that would solve much of the concerns that have been mentioned.
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Severity: enhancement