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neemfirst on "Which editor do you use?"

neemfirst — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:20:41 +0000

@Sdrane,
when you say "accent", do you mean a true accent, like in Renée?
You can stay in the rich editor, but the code for accents is different for each letter. For é, Alt+130; for â, Alt+131; for ç, Alt+135; and so on. This works on a PC; don't know if the coding would be different for Mac.

drmike on "Which editor do you use?"

drmike — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:08:42 +0000

Rain, I always click within teh editor box before doing a CTRL-V. That way, it's highlighted.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

urip on "Which editor do you use?"

urip — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:57:17 +0000

@sathya
Ok thanks, it's worked very well

raincoaster on "Which editor do you use?"

raincoaster — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:20:48 +0000

Note that Ctrl V doesn't always work in IE. For no reason I can determine, sometimes it simply refuses to paste it in, acting as if nothing's happened. You then need to right-click and paste, which causes the whole post to judder horribly and then bounce you back to the beginning. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.

rsathya on "Which editor do you use?"

rsathya — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:02:45 +0000

Alt+Shift+V should do the trick in ff2

urip on "Which editor do you use?"

urip — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:52:37 +0000

Hi,
After i installed firefox 2, i can't use keystroke Alt+... on rich text editor, why?
If i press Alt+V, it go to View on firefox 2 menu
If i press Alt+B, it go to Bookmarks on firefox 2 menu, etc.

michaelbb on "Which editor do you use?"

michaelbb — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:23:32 +0000

engtech

Thanks, I didnt even think of this when I was prusing through the forums, and made this post.
Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it.

Michaelbb

engtech on "Which editor do you use?"

engtech — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:23:48 +0000

michaelbb: we're using WordPress Multi-user at wordpress.com, not WordPress self-hosted.

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one difference I've noticed between Rich Text Editor and regular editor. Rich Text Editor will strip out the BGCOLOR tags on tables, but regular will leave them in.

michaelbb on "Which editor do you use?"

michaelbb — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:41:40 +0000

OK Rich txt editing is on, and I have tried both ie, and firefox, and the most I get is bolded type, no extra selections for formating or spell check. Are you folks running beta's of wordpress? I am using 2.0.4

Are you people using a special toolbar or anything like that, maybe I dont have something installed that others do. Just a thought.

michaelbb on "Which editor do you use?"

michaelbb — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:34:31 +0000

ampin on "Which editor do you use?"

ampin — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:46:12 +0000

just did a test
yep u do have to type something first
and then press the alt b
now it works perfectly
10q guys

engtech on "Which editor do you use?"

engtech — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:45:02 +0000

Just did some testing, the issue is definitely that the Rich Text Editor hasn't taken control of the keyboard input yet because you haven't clicked/typed anything in it yet.

engtech on "Which editor do you use?"

engtech — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:44:25 +0000

ampin: click inside the Rich Text Editor before you hit Alt-B in Firefox.

I use Firefox exclusively, and I've had no prob with Alt-B.

velvethammer on "Which editor do you use?"

velvethammer — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:19:13 +0000

Yes ampin I sure can. But... it does disappear sometimes, in the middle of drafting a post.
So I just have to alt+b again to make it show.
Who knows what the deal is. Computers can be full of surprizes.

ampin on "Which editor do you use?"

ampin — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:54:03 +0000

so u mean u guys can bring the advanced toolbar using fox?

velvethammer on "Which editor do you use?"

velvethammer — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:39:07 +0000

YW bluemoon
:) Yes I use Ctrl+v to paste in Fx too.
Alt+b brings up the advanced toolbar in the
visual rich editor as well.
Shrug. lol

blumoon on "Which editor do you use?"

blumoon — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:29:57 +0000

Control V works! Thank you.

@ampin: I have Firefox too. The first time I hit alt+B it did go to bookmarks, but somehow miraculously works now.

ampin on "Which editor do you use?"

ampin — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:55:32 +0000

PLus info
That would only work if you are using IE
And 70% of ppl now switched to firefox
and if u Alt-B on firefox it will only go for the Bookmark menu
(which made me clueless for the first 3 minutes)
then later the 6th sense tell me that u guys must still be using the IE

and voila...

ampin on "Which editor do you use?"

ampin — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:40:53 +0000

Window shortcut key is
Ctrl + C is copy
Ctlr + V is paste

velvethammer on "Which editor do you use?"

velvethammer — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:24:00 +0000

[bluemoon:One quick question while we are on this topic ... is it only me that cannot cut and paste while using this editor? I have to go into html editor to do that.]

Hit Ctrl+v to copy/paste too.

eclecticgeek on "Which editor do you use?"

eclecticgeek — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:23:44 +0000

Ignore my previous answer. You can copy and paste without going to HTML editor. Use the advanced tool bar. It has a text paste option. Also, see this thread:
http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=757&replies=7

raincoaster on "Which editor do you use?"

raincoaster — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:07:39 +0000

Sometimes, because of some weird WordPress glitch, you need to do pastes twice. So don't past and then give up when you don't see it; paste it again, immediately. That works for me.

eclecticgeek on "Which editor do you use?"

eclecticgeek — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:35:52 +0000

@unclesuuu:
Thanks for the tip. I've been trying to figure out how to add pi to one of my posts. Adding custom characters is right there in the advanced toolbar.

@blumoon
I believe this is the nature of the editor. I used a similar editor with another platform and it behaved the same way. Someone with more technical expertise will have to address why. My extremely wild guess would be a formatting issue.

blumoon on "Which editor do you use?"

blumoon — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:59:05 +0000

One quick question while we are on this topic ... is it only me that cannot cut and paste while using this editor? I have to go into html editor to do that.

blumoon on "Which editor do you use?"

blumoon — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:42:10 +0000

Wow!!!! I never knew about this. I switch between the two when editing sometimes, so this is going to be really helpful. I may have to change my rating of WordPress from 9 to 9.5. ;)

velvethammer on "Which editor do you use?"

velvethammer — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:42:33 +0000

@unclesuuu
alt+b Great tip. I was wondering why there wasn't more options.

raincoaster on "Which editor do you use?"

raincoaster — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:19:24 +0000

I use the WordPress Rich Text Editor, because I'm so retarded it took me three years to learen how to post a picture in a forum. It is pretty clean, although it must be admitted theres are some glitches.

I have done a blog in Word offline and posted it, and I've done a blog live in WordPress, and I have to say the differences are substantial. Use what works for what you want from the blog. A "live" blog is going to be more referance-based; one written offline is going to be more independent and original, just because of the form.

engtech on "Which editor do you use?"

engtech — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:26:14 +0000

I was so impressed with the Alt-B option that I wrote a post about it: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/wordpress-tips-alt-b/

The "paste from Word" option does a good job of converting Word formatting to HTML! I was shocked.

engtech on "Which editor do you use?"

engtech — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:00:16 +0000

!!!!

That alt-B option for the Rich Text Editor is great, I wish I'd known about it sooner. I'm going to have to try out the "Paste from Word" feature to see if it does a good job or not. I like out it gives access to the heading features.

I switch back and forth between the two. The Rich Text Editor eventually annoys me when it keeps strip out unnecessary whitespace that I *WANT* to put in (like say I'm trying to add three blank lines between paragraphs). But I hit a bug with the Basic Editor where if you edit a really long post it doesn't always load the entire post... so if you go to edit something in the beginning you can end up losing a lot of the post.

swein on "Which editor do you use?"

swein — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:15:28 +0000

@timethief -

I was referring to WordPress.com.