Redesign editor to improve the writing experience [on Desktop]

[mik01aj]

@madrush

The only thing I’m not sure of is how the preview would be appear. Maybe as an overlay?

Imho this would require a WYSIWYG editor. Gmail does it right:

Btw. There is a recent related topic:

Help us test the rewritten Composer

We’ve been using pagedown as our rich composer for years. Unfortunately, we’d outgrown it in a few ways: It’s very hard to extend to add features. It hasn’t been updated in years. It had implementations of features we didn’t like or found buggy like undo/redo. We forked the editor and removed them but that just left us with a lot of dead code. It had zero tests. Modifying it meant we could be taking a detour to regression town U.S.A. We made the decision to rewrite our composer us…