Raw markdown editing

[timotoots]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Sometimes markdown has non-standard elements that Text renders as it thinks is standard.

Describe the solution you'd like
A button "Edit raw" that would allow editing raw markdown.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[mejo-]

Thanks for your report @timotoots.

I'm pretty sure that there is already an issue for tracking this feature, but I failed to find it now when searching for it 🤔

[mejo-]

There's #123, #323 and #815, all closed. Shall we keep this issue open or re-open one of the earlier ones? @max-nextcloud @juliushaertl

[datenangebot]

I can not find a way to see and edit the raw file content within the editor. So we keep this issue open as feature request.

[juliusknorr]

Yes, this is not implemented yet. A few thoughts as I think it might make sense to have this at some point, however it is not on our roadmap so far. Contributions for this would of course be very welcome.

• We'd need a toggle for a preview next to the raw editor (also related to AsciiDoc support #3564)
• We would need to limit the full editing session to either raw or rich text editing since otherwise the rich editor may change the content in an unexpected way if some users join with rich editing
• Some open questions:
  • Would this be a user or per document setting?
  • What happens if a user prefers plain markdown but the document is currently opened by another user in rich text mode (or the other way round)

[l-mb]

I see the issue if editing in collaborative mode. However, this would still be really useful.

To start with, even obtaining an exclusive lock when raw mode is activated by someone would be useful for repairing broken Markdown or inspecting what's going on. One can do it right now anyway (by opening the file in a synced directory), so having it in the web mode would just be more convenient.

[JL710]

The technical reasoning with collaborative editing sounds reasonable.
Wouldn't it be possible for the administrator to decide on a view (Or on a User or File Level)?
It could be a setting that the author of a file needs to decide when sharing a file.

[juliusknorr]

Either on an instance wide admin defined level or file level would work, per user not as you could then have two users with different settings open the same file.

[n8falke]

I see why a good solution is complicated to implement.

Is it easier to implement a way to copy markdown-source to the clipboard?

[JL710]

@n8falke you can simply mark the section you want to copy and press control+c. That copies it to the clipboard. Then you can simply paste it into notepad or something like that.

[n8falke]

@JL710 control+c only copies the text and HTML version.

The Idea was to get the markdown, i.e. to be used here, in a README.md or to edit it, copy and paste it back, to fix errors like described above.

[JL710]

@n8falke when I paste the copied text into any normal text input, browser or local text editor, I get the raw markdown. With headings marked as with hashtags etc.

[n8falke]

@JL710 you are right if you use the headings, tables, lists, multi-line-source-code. Thanks for the hint that can help.

I tested with bold text. Which is lost. Same seems to be with italic, code etc. Pasting into NC seems to work.