Prosemirror

[edrex]

Prosemirror is a visual prose editor with excellent markdown support. I would love to see prosemirror integrated as an alternate editing view for markdown content.

This would make the learning curve softer for users who don't already know markdown. Also, sometimes I get tired of staring at code, and just want to see WIM.

https://prosemirror.net/demo/markdown.html

[edrex]

Proposal:

• add a button to the toolbar to toggle WYM mode.
• Reuse toolbar and existing formatting buttons in WYM mode.
• Adapt insert image and insert link popups to work in WYM mode.

[timwis]

That looks like a handy editor. I was thinking of something like this when I saw this medium-style editor for markdown but it has a few bugs in it.

I'd also add "Store user's preference in a cookie" similar to how you can toggle the csv editor on/off and it saves it.

[dereklieu]

I'm glad there's interest here. The company I work for was a backer to get Prose Mirror open-sourced, and a lot of our interest centered around using it for applications like Prose.

The version of CodeMirror bundled in Prose is woefully out of date (#929), and there's a lot of reasons to 1) update it, and 2) incorporate ProseMirror, which would allow a lot of cool things such as collaborative editing.

Unfortunately the only blocker now is development time, both in regression-testing new PR's like the one above, or in doing the development. If someone wants to take a crack at an implementation, I'd be more than happy to assist/review.

[janpio]

Has there been done any work on this yet that could be looked at?
Adding a WYSIWYG/M editor to prose would be really nice.

[dereklieu]

To update, the bundled version of CodeMirror has since been updated but I've not done the work incorporating ProseMirror.

[janpio]

Prosemirror just released their 1.0!
http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror-1.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15465125