@manton Is the editor itself going to be open-sourced on eg. Github?

Something happens when using double-underscore for bold; the cursor does lag when moving along the second underscore, and then the next word is sort-of trapped as italic no matter what.

At a quick glance it seems to be snappier, which is great. :)

@oelna Yes, I’m hoping to open source the whole platform. The editor could be managed separately, not sure. It’s in its own JS file without any dependencies.

@SimonWoods Thanks! I always use double-asterisks for bold, so need to improve it for underscores.

@manton js caching is the worst.

@otaviocc Thanks, I’ll work on fixing that. Parenthesis and underscores inside URLs have always caused some trouble.

@lexfri This was my own fault, because in dev testing it doesn’t use the minimized version. Just reinforces my feeling to avoid any post-processing of JS.

Looks good. An option to disable the character counter would be good.

@moonmehta It hides automatically when you type a title. Do you find you’re often typing longer posts with no title, so don’t care about the warning?

@pratik 👍

noticed that when copying from my Markdown editor into the web app editor a TON of new lines were added.

I didn’t have this problem earlier this week using the same workflow.

@jdm Thanks for letting us know. What Markdown editor were you copying from?

I did look for a hint as to what was supported — it looks like the link to Gruber’s guide is no longer there — but couldn’t find anything.

@SimonWoods the Markdown is powered by goldmark inside of Hugo​ although it’s possible not all of these syntax elements are supported by the text boxes, all of the available Markdown for blogs and replies will be found there.

I was copying from Ghostwriter.

@jdm I hope it doesn’t matter, but specifically using Ghostwriter on a KDE desktop. The computer I do a lot of posting from is an chromebook with Q4OS. When I’m at my desktop I use Typora but I haven’t posted anything from the desktop in awhile.

Yes. In my case, the warning only pushes me mentally to shorten text rather than write what I just want to.

it doesn’t save automatically, does it?

@jtr It doesn’t, but I’m going to add that.

@yostos That’s very helpful, thanks. I’m looking into it.

@otaviocc also, text substitution configured on macOS seems to have a fight with the new text editor of Micro.blog… where writing the first few letters of the text substitution will be immediately replaced … hard to explain for me in English.

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when I just tried to edit a post using the new editor, the resulting text direction goes backwards, eg to the left of the cursor. So writing something like “photo” inside of existing text actually produces “otohp.”

@dajb Sorry, I meant to post to @news and will do that shortly. I’ll check your feedback too, thanks. I tested it a lot but there are still a couple things I missed.

I’d still love an option to always show the title field, for what it’s worth. Maybe if you’re in podcasting “mode” it’s always visible? Just funny that I always have to upload the audio for the title field to show up.

@lex Good feedback, thanks. Makes sense. We have an option in the iOS and Mac app, but not on the web yet. I’ll add it under the “…” menu later.

@rscottjones Yes, I also got right-to-left entry of text when trying to insert a word in a draft.

put something on the help pages FYI help.micro.blog/t/weird-n… cc @thoughtshrapnel

@otaviocc @numericcitizen I’m having trouble getting macOS to ever predict anything, so I can’t reproduce this. Any example substitutions not working for y’all that I could test?

@pratik For something weird that sounds better for the help center.

@pratik No preference. Keeping things organized is a losing battle. 🤪

If I type “appl”, I get transposed into the apple logo but it goes so fast that the editor turn it immediatly… a small delay would fix this.

The editor resizes when I paste some html, which is good, but as soon as the image I’m posting loads, it is too large and a scrollbar appears. So I’m scrolling back and forth in a window 1/4 the height of my large monitor, with no drag handle to resize. I would very much appreciate some manual control and/or setting to get a much larger area.

@cliffordbeshers I’m going to update this to resize to the full height for larger windows.

@yostos I just fixed something that I think was interfering with that. Do you mind trying to edit the post and see if it works properly? I tested again and it’s working for me with the special truncation comment.

got an issue when posting links with an underscore in (e.g., to Wikipedia articles). In editor view it treats it like markdown italics and looks a mess. All fine once posted, just looks confusing in the editor.

An Lo!, this morning it appeared. Quick work. I still have an itch for a manual resize handle, but this fix does really get the job done. Thank you.

Another small issue: with spell-check turned on in Chrome, the little red squigglies under unknown words flash after every keystroke.

@samradford Working on a fix for that. Thanks!