# Help us test the rewritten Composer
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** feedback
**Created:** [19 באוקטובר, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679 "2015-10-19T16:51:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [29 בדצמבר, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/132 "2015-12-29T19:59:56Z")
> [@Steven](#):
>
> When we type a long text and we want to use a button (like bold) in the first lines, the cursor goes at the end of the text, it doesn’t stay in the selected part.
I’ve got a fix for this, merci for letting me know!
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fd6bbc69e2d9a1ca71e4c8e56a974a65482ce369](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fd6bbc69e2d9a1ca71e4c8e56a974a65482ce369)
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### Author:  [@john\_mardlin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john_mardlin)
#### Post date: [31 בדצמבר, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/133 "2015-12-31T23:02:22Z")
Is there any hope of getting a shortcut for image uploads in the new editor? Stackexchange appears to use Ctrl+G.
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### Author:  [@axp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/axp)
#### Post date: [3 בינואר, 2016, 8:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/134 "2016-01-03T08:06:31Z")
Bug with bold text in list here on meta.
Before making an item bold:
After it is bold:
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [3 בינואר, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/136 "2016-01-03T15:37:45Z")
If you want to bold an item, you can do it if you don’t include the number or bullet, like this:
```plaintext
1. one
2. **two**
3. three
```
1. one
2. **two**
3. three
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### Author:  [@YOU](https://meta.discourse.org/u/YOU)
#### Post date: [5 בינואר, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/137 "2016-01-05T02:54:11Z")
Also markdown never used the numbers you typed at front, it same as typing all 1. like this
```
1. one
1. two
1. three
```
1. one
2. two
3. three
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [16 בינואר, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/138 "2016-01-16T16:19:20Z")
There’s a little bug I think.
Highlight a _text_ and press Bold+Italic don’t works (text is only italic).
Do the same thing but _ **press** _ Italic+Bold works (text is bold and italic).
Tested on Firefox and Chrome here on Meta (and on my forum too).
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [16 בינואר, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/139 "2016-01-16T17:42:20Z")
I did get this from a long time, I was considering this to be a functionality of the way the composer works maybe i am wrong?
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [16 בינואר, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/140 "2016-01-16T19:05:53Z")
I’m pretty sure the ‘old’ composer works clicking B+I too. I don’t know if his current behavior is a bug or not.
@eviltrout surely knows.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [16 בינואר, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/141 "2016-01-16T19:11:54Z")
It seems because italic is using \* versus \_. And if you bold first, it sees there are surrounding \* around the text so it removes one set of them. If the italics used \_ it would remove this conflict.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [18 בינואר, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/142 "2016-01-18T19:55:49Z")
I originally did it that way to maintain compatibility with the previous editor. Now that it has been fully retired I’ve changed it to `_` and it seems to work:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/57c3d657778dc002b542cdd58777cd65a7a09203](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/57c3d657778dc002b542cdd58777cd65a7a09203)
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### Author:  [@MiguelAngelLV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MiguelAngelLV)
#### Post date: [27 בינואר, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/143 "2016-01-27T09:55:33Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> Personally I also much prefer the footnote style, I can see us adding an option for it
Finally we have this option?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [27 בינואר, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/144 "2016-01-27T10:14:43Z")
Not yet… but I want it
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [27 בינואר, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/145 "2016-01-27T12:16:12Z")
As someone who personally prefers the inline style, I would be in favor of having the composer button only do footnote style, rather than add another option, since inline is easy enough to do manually.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [27 בינואר, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/146 "2016-01-27T12:43:59Z")
There’s a tiny feature regression here. You can no longer revert formatting in an arbitrary order.
Try edit my post, highlight this **_word_** (` **_word_** `) and click the **B** button to remove the bold formatting. You can’t; it’ll apply another round of bold formatting. You have to remove the italicisation first.
Now try removing bold formatting for this _ **word** _ (` ***word*** `). It works.[quote=“mcwumbly, post:145, topic:34679, full:true”]
As someone who personally prefers the inline style, I would be in favor of having the composer button only do footnote style, rather than add another option, since inline is easy enough to do manually.
[/quote]In retrospect, I’m perfectly okay with this too. I miss the space-preservation 😖
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [4 במרץ, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/147 "2016-03-04T17:12:06Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Email Notification recipients unclear when PM is sent to multiple users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934/16):
Is this a bug with the rewritten composer?
The following markdown…
```
Good point. Maybe a line could be added: "You received this because it is addressed to you, along with `@foo` `@bar` `@foobar` and `n others`.
```
presents the following with missing spaces between preformatted text:
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [4 במרץ, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/148 "2016-03-04T18:20:51Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
>
> presents the following with missing spaces between preformatted text
Looks like this bug to me:
> [@Odd markdown results - unexpected whitespace removal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/odd-markdown-results-unexpected-whitespace-removal/28989):
>
> The following markdown seems to remove white space between letters on the 2nd line Markdown Code `leosomethingelse` - `leo address 1` - created `1 year ` - mem `period 11` & `period 12` - seen `6 hours ago` `leo` x `leo address 2` - created `\>10 years` - mem `period 05 to period 08` - seen `never on this planet` Actual Result Expected Result As it displays on here right now leosomethingelse - leo address 1 - created 1 year - mem period 11 & period 12 - seen 6 hours ago …
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [15 באפריל, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/149 "2016-04-15T19:12:27Z")
> [@eviltrout](#):
>
> This conflicts on a Mac unfortunately. Cmd+Shift+G finds previous in Chrome.
What about ctrl+shift+u for upload? This does nothing on my keyboard.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [15 באפריל, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/150 "2016-04-15T19:28:58Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> What about ctrl+shift+u for upload? This does nothing on my keyboard.
Nooooo. This starts unicode mode on Linux (at least on my ubuntu machine).
CTRL+SHIFT+U B 0 makes a ° for example.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [16 באפריל, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/151 "2016-04-16T01:01:38Z")
Something that perhaps visually makes sense is ctrl+shift+^
The caret character, not the up arrow, for me this is written above the 6 on the number row on my keyboard.
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### Author:  [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)
#### Post date: [16 באפריל, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-the-rewritten-composer/34679/152 "2016-04-16T09:11:48Z")
Ctrl-Shift-^ / 6 looks ok to me on the Mac. Might be a problem on international keyboards though.
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