Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with real-time collab (2018)

Re:Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with rea... by m463 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:08AM (#25404881)

There's no other way to say this: I dislike ckeditor.

An application I have to use frequently uses it for rich text entry.

But I use firefox + a mac and it seems poorly suited. I don't think safari works either.

It replaces the default editing keys so every time I hit control-b - instead of going back a character I turn on bold. Every time I hit control-k - instead of clearing to end of line, it pops up a create link dialog.

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with rea... by monroewalker on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @11:48AM (#25432003)

Are those the only complaints with it? Those actions for the shortcuts you mentioned seem pretty standard so it might be worth adjusting to them and figuring out how to work around it in whatever software uses different responses.

You could also look into Karabiner (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/) to create some custom keybindings. I've used it to rebind capslock to act as a modifier so that capslock + 3 = start of line, capslock + 4 = end of line, + hjkl = left, down, up, right, etc. Nice way to get consistent behavior without worrying about what binds a particular piece of software has defined

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with rea... by mrrobotchicken on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:01AM (#25416241)

Hello there, I work for CKEditor and opened an issue regarding this but for future reference please do not hesitate to report such issues to us! https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/builds/guides/sup... https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/8653

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with rea... by oneeyedpigeon on Sunday December 13, 2020 @07:14AM (#25406058)

That's very weird - on mac, I'd expect bold and 'create link' to be exactly those shortcuts, but with the apple key replacing control...

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with rea... by m463 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:00PM (#25410226)

exactly.

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with rea... by hajimemash on Sunday December 13, 2020 @09:15AM (#25406675)

ok what

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Re:Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with rea... by m463 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:11PM (#25410320)

He means (correctly) that on a mac the command for bold is cmd-b instead of control-b (which is bold on windows)

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