This is work in progress, please give me some thought. :smile: :muscle:

Intriguing! Are you planning to eventually open source your work?

Awesome. Please update us here when you do. I’m very curious to find out what libraries you’re building this on top of. I always thought Prosemirror would be a good foundation for WYSIWYG in Discourse, since it is also using @vitaly’s excellent markdown-it library. Also, are you doing this as a personal project (i.e. for the fun and challenge of it, and scratching an itch) or is this work being sponsored in some way? I ask because within the Meta community there’s huge interest in rich editing, so there are a couple different avenues we could explore to support this work.

This is kind of personal project, I am in the middle of converting my own forum into discourse, but Markdown would be big obstacle for my users, that’s why I have been doing this (on spare time). This editor intents to be compatible with Discourse, I am challenging with quotes and Markdown, so far so good. :flexed_biceps:

Hi folks, should we allow editing text inside quote? it is currently allowed to do so.

[image] quangbuule: Hi folks, should we allow editing text inside quote? It is currently allowed to do so. I do this regularly. Sometimes to fix a typo, sometimes to add emphasis. Sometimes to add ellipses when removing parts of the quote for brevity. So, it’s nice to have. But I don’t think it’s must have if you’re looking for ways to cut scope and get an initial release out sooner.

Alright, have that done. I am making way to insert text before and after quote blocks.

If you want more feedback, we can set you up with a public demo instance on Digital Ocean. There’s going to be a whole bunch of people around here eager to try it out. You can send me a PM about it.

This is what would happen when quoting more while the cursor (of the editor) is inside another quote.

Things done recently: Copying / pasting rich text. Quote editing. Adding/Removing link. Rich text to markdown conversion to save to the database.

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Development

sam (Sam Saffron) March 12, 2025, 11:39pm 19

Discourse is now shipping an experimental WYSIWYG composer

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WYSIWYG Plugin (again) Feature completed	27	10127	March 12, 2025
Rich Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) Product Support	2	1958	March 12, 2025
Enhancing appeal with image previews Product Support	10	531	March 13, 2025
WYSIWYG editor as a replacement Feature completed	2	2859	March 12, 2025

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