BEbergie·Mar 27, 2012
Yeah, you're supposed to see a toolbar: https://github.com/bergie/hallo/issues/50#issuecomment-47170...
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Good point! Done: https://github.com/bergie/hallo/commit/259c6172e475188f01fd9...
Selecting text in the middle of a paragraph and choosing a header type or pre or blockquote affects the whole paragraph. This isn't immediately intuitive. I don't have a good solution to this, but it's something to consider.
Yeah, this is what browsers do by default when issuing commands to the contentEditable. The way to fix this would be to recognize the command before it issued and splitting the text before and after a selection to their own block-level elements.
https://github.com/bergie/hallo/issues/54
Once I select text in the middle of a paragraph and mark it as pre there doesn't seem to be a way to back out this change, selecting blockquote just embeds a blockquote in the pre block.
Yeah, pre is kind of difficult to handle. I'm thinking abo
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ut solutions. Previous Hallo didn't have pre enabled to work around this, but I really would like to be able to add code snippets when I write.
The <= and => icons are not intuitive as undo/redo.
I'm using FontAwesome, and they will hopefully add a proper undo at some point (https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/16).
The actual undo/redo implementation comes from the browser, so it is a bit hard to do much about it. But whenever we get to doing OT with ShareJS there might come a better way to handle editing history.
I would like to use markdown in the contenteditable area too. I expect it to recognize that I mean bold when I write jooo -- otherwise I would be stuck using the GUI buttons every time I want to change something.
That is a long-wanted feature in Hallo, not only when producing Markdown, but also when Rich Text Editing normal HTML. Would be great for power users.
Feel free to add comments to:
https://github.com/bergie/hallo/issues/11
(we're having an IKS hack week in Saarbrucken now, and Hallo is one of the focus areas. So something might actually happen around this)
In Show HN: WYSIWYG-editing Markdown with Hallo EditorAgreed, I usually .gitignore the generated JavaScript. Though sometimes it is useful to also provide JS in the repository, so people checking out the repo can immediately have running examples.
That is what we do for example in Hallo Editor: https://github.com/bergie/hallo
In CoffeeScript is not a language worth learningTake a local checkout of https://github.com/bergie/hallo and try the example there. You'll have a lot more formatting options.
We will have a hack weekend on Create in January in Zurich, and hopefully after that I'll update the demo setup with a lot more features enabled (formatting, images, workflows, etc)
In Create - A new kind of web editing interfaceI agree. Have a look at hallo (a really basic inline editor). The coffeescript (https://github.com/bergie/hallo/blob/master/examples/hallo.j...) is 236 lines, including about 60 lines of comments. The javascript is 208 lines, with no comments, and extremely clean (https://github.com/bergie/hallo/blob/master/examples/hallo.j...).
I think the big advantage of coffeescript is it gets rid of the whole "implicit global variable" thing. It's not a completely new language (like pyjamas - a python-js converter) just bit of syntactic sugar, which happens to make mistakes a little harder.
In Mozilla, WebKit To Support Debugging CoffeeScript and other JS LanguagesI think it would make a lot of sense for WYSIWYG editors to support Markdown-like microsyntax for simple formatting:
https://github.com/bergie/hallo/issues/11
This way you start writing _something, and it becomes something
In Elegant Markdown for a more civilized ageIf you mean rich text editor made in jQuery, then there is http://aloha-editor.org/ and https://github.com/bergie/hallo
In Ask HN: Is anyone working on a visual jQuery editor?