Maniphest T194095

Deemphasizing formatting tokens
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	Drewmutt
	May 7 2018, 11:00 PM

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I felt it would be a helpful feature to dim formatting tokens, as per Bear on the Mac (screenshot below). I really enjoyed how it decluttered the content. Thoughts?

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Drewmutt created this task.May 7 2018, 11:00 PM

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matmarex edited projects, added MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror; removed VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor, VisualEditor.May 8 2018, 2:15 AM

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I really love the example you showed, but we just don't have time to make any more changes. Community Tech is winding down our time investment on a CodeMirror integration.

CodeMirror can be customized via user CSS: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wikitext_editor_syntax_highlighting#Color_and_style_customization

From my chat with Drewmutt yesterday, this ticket is specifically for the 2017 wikitext editor. Our team can't work on it but maybe someone from Editing can take it on at some point.

Restricted Application added a project: VisualEditor. · View Herald TranscriptMay 8 2018, 4:27 PM

this ticket is specifically for the 2017 wikitext editor

I wouldn't want to diverge the colour scheme between the two editors.

Currently the formatting tokens are light blue. Is the proposal just change that to light grey?

There may also be accessibility concerns if the contrast is reduced too much.

• Deskana triaged this task as Low priority.May 8 2018, 6:42 PM

• Deskana moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.

• Vvjjkkii renamed this task from Deemphasizing formatting tokens to sfdaaaaaaa.Jul 1 2018, 1:12 AM

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CommunityTechBot renamed this task from sfdaaaaaaa to Deemphasizing formatting tokens.Jul 2 2018, 1:40 PM

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TheDJ moved this task from Backlog to Improvement on the MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror board.Mar 20 2019, 10:33 AM

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	May 8 2018, 4:49 PM

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