[xwiki-users] Ways to protect from visual-editing ?

[Vincent Massol]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 2:12 AM, Paul Libbrecht wrote:

>
> Hello List,
>
> is there a way to prevent some document (or document-classes or...)  
> from being edited with the visual editor ? Clearly some source- 
> freaks will not like it if others carelessly replace their careful  
> source layout!

I am one of those source freaks and I hate it too when the wysiwyg  
editor escapes some of my characters :)

What we want is that the wysiwyg editor doesn't modify any layout or  
anything that was written outside of it. If it happens it means that  
it's a bug. Note that there are already quite a few known bugs in the  
wysiwyg editor in JIRA.

Now back to your question: No this doesn't exist right now. What you  
could do if you wanted would be to create an Editor Class and modify  
the vm file (*edit.vm) where the editor is selected. The current rule  
is: user-selected editor, wiki-level editor. You could modify that and  
add a check for an Editor object attached to the page.

But the best would really be to just fix the bug in the current  
editor. Patches are most welcome.

Thanks
-Vincent