[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] - Behavior of the enter key in the new WYSIWYG editor

Hi devs, right now we need to hit enter twice in a row to create a new paragraph. Although I strongly pushed this implementation back in the day, it is proving to be counter-intuitive for almost all users. After a review of a number of other tools (including OpenOffice & online text editors) & reading of posts on the topic, I came to the conclusion that we'd better come back to the previous behavior for the enter key: - Hitting enter once creates a new paragraph - Hitting caps + enter creates a new line in the same paragraph When writing, users tend to write a number of sentences (most of the time between 3 and 7 of them) and then hit enter to create a new paragraph. The issue sometimes encountered is that an user writes a single line, then hits enter to find out that a lot of spacing is entered between both lines. This issue can easily be fixed through CSS in the default XWiki Enterprise distribution (we could use OOo as a source of inspiration for the respective line heights between 2 lines & 2 paragraphs - right now I'd say the height between 2 paragraphs is a bit too big). Additionally, this would "fix" the "issue" currently encountered by users when they input 2 lines and try to make one of them a title: - User inputs line of text, hits enter, inputs 2nd line - User puts caret at the end of first line and selects "Title 1" - Both lines are turned into a title -> weird This behavior is unexpected from an end-user point of view and would be fixed by coming back to the previousbehavior for the enter key. WDYT? Guillaume PS: I'm really sorry about the additional work incurred by my initial lack of understanding of the role of paragraphs -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/