User talk:Soap/sandbox

test of visual editor
it is difficult to type links in the visual editor. i noticed this problem on wiktionary earlier and disabled the visual editor, but wiktionary now has a tool that looks similar to the visual editor but behaves more intuitively, meaning that links can be typed directly using the brackets instead of needing to type the word twice. currently the visual editor here seems to be designed primarily for editing existing wiki-text, not typing new links. for example, if i want to make a link to the "bath" page right now, i need to first type the brackets, then type the word bath, then wait for the popup to load, then select the link i want, then type the word again so it will appear properly (because otherwise it just produces an unclickable blank link), and then click into the window to end the link. There might be a keyboard shortcut that I can use instead of clicking into the window, but if so, it isnt obvious what it is, and neither space nor return seem to be it. if the user at any point does not do this exact sequence the result is just a bare ''— Soap — 14:36, 28 August 2023 (UTC)


 * bath Bathing . it seems that a double-press of the right arrow will escape the link-typing but this is highly counterintuitive and i would expect few people to figure this out without a great deal of trial-and-error. anything else requires the typer to use both a mouse and a keyboard simultaneously jsut to type a link, which is highly inconvenient. assuming this was designed on purpose to discourage people from adding spurious links makes sense, since mainspace often does not need links, and the links it has are mostly typed over pre-existing text, but it is highly inconvenient for talk pages, and even more inconvenient for wiktionary, where nearly all links are direct rather than piped. — Soap — 14:38, 28 August 2023 (UTC)