User:Alien333/cmbb

DRAFT

This is a work-in-progress, and not a finished product. It may have unexpected behaviour, though probably nothing too serious.

If you find bugs and they're not listed at #Bugs, please add them.

Code Mirror
But homeBrew^[1]

I was annoyed at how CM worked^[2], so I wrote User:Alien333/cmbb.js for syntax highlighting, and have been adding other stuff to it. The reasoning behind it all is this: MediaWiki is not optimised for proofreading, and we won't find anything better, so let's optimise it ourselves.

↑ It aims to be eventually better for my purpose, and maybe even others'.
Title was at first "But Better", but it isn't really, it's just a different way of doing, different goals (and until I fix #Bugs it's going to be decidedly worse).
↑ that was CM5; CM6 brings a lot of interesting stuff; When they start supporting headers & footers and protected pages, I'm probably going to drop most of this, and maintain only as a sort of plugin a few things like in-page preview & diff, scanno coloring, autocompletion, and/or redlink marking.

Features

Available:

better syntax highlighting: thorougher, e.g. italics in templates
includes headers and footers
in-page preview & diff: replaces the normal, slow preview and "show changes" that reload the page, by faster ones that don't have to reload and can be closed without reloading (is imperfect, the standard ones can be forced with ctrl-click)
autocompletion: for link targets and template names, three results displayed, insert one by clicking on it (CM6 only does it for magic words)
coloring on protected pages: why, you might ask? see the last thread there, that bug was out there for at least three years because (understandably) no one bothered to manually check that there were 5 not 6 brackets
opening pages linked to/transcluded in the code, in a new tab, by ctrl-click (CM6 also does this)
redlink marking in template names and and link targets

Bugs

in Page:space, past a certain page length, it overflows the container -- that's an issue with the CSS used to overlay the overlay
Doesn't recognise {{VARIABLES}} -- use CM's list
Redlinking is mistakenly redlinking {{...}} and {{....}} -- probably trying to find parent (..) + ..
overeager tag matching -- taking nearly anything between <s and >s as a tag. Excessive. -- maybe just assume multiple-line tags are not tags?

Other to do

important:

redo stacks -- undo without redo is a bit meh

less important:

try to make an alternative discussiontools, with CMBB highlighting (and correcting DT's issues with automatic intending, it breaks with tables and syntaxhighlights)
sorting lists

Not sure of:

limited WYSIWYG support, e.g. making sections titles and {{l}} larger, centering {{ppoem}} and {{c}} (quite complicated, not sure I'll manage)
code folding. It's a long story, but technically it's very much related to the item above.
pasting of formatted content (maybe)

Compatibiity

This tries to still be compatible with all scripts, so textarea .val()ing still works. There is a delay up to 0.5secs in displaying .vals(), though. To make it instant, add a .trigger("input") after the .val() closing parentheses.

Classes

The colors it uses are my colors, and are also made for (my hacked) dark mode, so you may not like them. You can change them with these classes:

class	what it targets	does by default
cmbb-titl	link targets, template names, parser function names, variable names	underline (plus the color &/or bold)
cmbb-temp	templates^[1]	bold #055
cmbb-para	variables^[1]	bold #660
cmbb-pars	parser functions^[1]	bold #F95
cmbb-link	links	#0063BF
cmbb-tabl	table markup	bold #A8F
cmbb-taat	html attributes in tables	#F0E
cmbb-comm	comments	grey
cmbb-ital	italics	italics
cmbb-bold	bold	bold
cmbb-medi	mediawiki formatting^[2]	#07F
cmbb-nowi	text that is nowiki'd/syntaxhighlightt'd	#F3F3F3 background
cmbb-xtag	xml-style tags	#396
cmbb-sugg	autocomplete suggestions	#000 on #EEE
cmbb-redl	redlinks	#F77
cmbb-digi	digits and other likely scannos	red^[3]
cmbb-conp	commas	green^[4]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 includes brackets, name, and pipes, but not arguments
↑ the italic/bold apostrophes, list markers, indentation, magic words, signature, section titles
↑ During proofreading, these are most of the time errors. This helps differentiate for instance an 1 from an I.
↑ conp is for COmma Not Period. Commas and Periods are often much too easy to confuse, and this has long for me been one of the hardest-to-spot scannos. Like this, they are very easily distinguishable

[1] It aims to be eventually better for my purpose, and maybe even others'.
Title was at first "But Better", but it isn't really, it's just a different way of doing, different goals (and until I fix #Bugs it's going to be decidedly worse).

[2] that was CM5; CM6 brings a lot of interesting stuff; When they start supporting headers & footers and protected pages, I'm probably going to drop most of this, and maintain only as a sort of plugin a few things like in-page preview & diff, scanno coloring, autocompletion, and/or redlink marking.

[n1-3] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 includes brackets, name, and pipes, but not arguments

[4] the italic/bold apostrophes, list markers, indentation, magic words, signature, section titles

[5] During proofreading, these are most of the time errors. This helps differentiate for instance an 1 from an I.

[6] s for COmma Not Period. Commas and Periods are often much too easy to confuse, and this has long for me been one of the hardest-to-spot scannos. Like this, they are very easily distinguishable

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