Code editor not being a code editor

I’ve been using WordPress for a year and half, not much, but enought to give my personal evaluation. I think the whole application is great and the improvements are always fantastic.

Nevertheless, I find the code editor the only weak part of it. I’m not saying it’s a bad work, I could never say that. I mean that IMHO the code editor is targetting to the wrong place. The main and only purpose of a code editor should be to be a code editor, and, as far as part of the code is not shown in the code editor (like paragraph tags), this one is not a code but a semi-code editor.

Again, IMHO the editor should be a tool for people with some or advanced knowledge in (x)html coding. Never another kind of user will dare to play in the code playgound, or at least it won’t be usual at all.

So, if only prepared people will use it ¿Why annoy them making them to think in how a semi-code editor will interpret their code? Because the thing is that it do causes some annoying troubles with paragraphs, blockquotes and line breaks.

I understand it has to have a code debbuger, after all, to avoid unclosed tags, and so on, in order to not cause troubles not only in the code, but with in the wysiwyg editor. However. Is not any other way to do it? Because I have even had some troubles with the code editor that, writting my clean code, it has converted it in not valid code. Really.

In fact, after some small troubles during the last months, this post is motivated after my little nightmare today trying to insert this very small portion of very valid code.

It took me like 5 minutes to finally manage to do it. And in a very unstable way, as if I open the wysiwyg editor again and just click “save” (whithout doing anything in the middle) it mess it up again.

So, my choice, after my very long explanation, would be a code editor as is. Where every tag is shown, and that it doesn’t touch anything as far as every tag is opened and closed correctly, so valid in this way.