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  • 1. Is there a list of editors that can be used with WordPress?

    2. How does one install an editor?

    3. I am looking for a reasonably flexible editor –
    for example, I would like a blank line in my input
    to be replaced by </p><p>,
    and I would like to be able to add buttons
    to make it easy to include html or php code.

    Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

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  • 1) All in one place? Not that I’m aware of, but it’s a simple web search.

    Also, see the responses you received last time you asked this question: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/109888?replies=3

    2) Depends on the one you choose. Oftentimes, just like any WP plugin.

    3) Perhaps you want to look for code formatting plugins instead?

    Thread Starter gayleard

    (@gayleard)

    Thanks for your reply.
    I’m working my way through the list of plugins you pointed to,
    but so far they all do far more than I want.

    I have been keeping an impersonal diary –
    mainly reminders to myself of how to do things –
    for several years, using the standard Unix text editor vi.
    The result is not elegant, but is easy to search through,
    using grep.

    Having gone over to WordPress for several weeks,
    I find it much more time-consuming to make entries,
    and am wondering now if it is worth pursuing this option.

    The reason, incidentally, why I went over to WP
    was that I have a number of computers which I use
    at different times,
    so a web-based system seemed worth looking into.

    I am a mathematician, and use LaTeX quite a lot.
    Surprisingly, I find writing LaTeX
    much simpler than any WP editor I have tried.

    It seems my needs are not those of the usual WP user.
    I want above all to be able to make quick entries,
    which will only invoke the simplest of HTML tags –
    for example, I’d like a blank line to produce </p><p>.

    I’d also like it to be as simple as possible
    to cut-and-paste from items I read,
    in newsgroups or email or on the web.

    Maybe WordPress is not for me –
    basically, I am not a blogger
    but am simply looking for an easy way to make personal notes.

    Anyway, I’ll go back to looking through the suggested plugins,
    but as I said these all seem to be trying to make
    various complicated tasks easy,
    while I am looking for the opposite,
    something to make trivial tasks trivial.

    Why not turn off the wysiwyg editor?

    Users -> Your Profile. UNcheck the top box.

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