Hi, Bill, The CKEditor is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, meaning that if you type "[[something]]" when editing the page, you will get "[[something]]" when viewing the page, not ("something" linking somewhere). What you want is to use the "Source" button in order to edit in wiki syntax mode, at which point you can start entering wiki syntax directly in the editor (e.g. typing links, bold, lists, etc.). When you are done, you can click "Source" again to go back to WYSIWYG mode. Hope this helps, Eduard On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:22 PM, wprussell <[email protected]> wrote:

Currently, in CKeditor, Double left Brackets [[link]] are escaped to ~[~[link]]

This is a show stopper for my client, as they ant the ability to type in a link manually without using the Link button. Only CKEditor escapes these. Any way to configure this no not escape

Any help would be appreciated.

Bill Russell

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Maybe you`re mixing things a bit. A WYSIWYG (in this case, CKEditor) exists so that you don`t have to enter raw syntax (in this case, XWiki syntax, i.e. link syntax) in the editor. Anything the user enters in the editor needs to look the same it was entered, but, when it is saved, needs to be safe and escaped so that the document structure will not break. If you insist on entering raw syntax, I again direct you to use the "Source" tab/button and do the needed change, assuming that you take responsibility for the consequences (i.e. that your change does not break the underlying document and that CKEditor will still be able to display it nicely in WYSIWYG mode). Now, what you might actually want, is a typing shortcut inside CK to be able to start writing "[[" and then get an autosuggest dropdown with page titles that you could quickly link to. Once you select a page, CK would show the title of the selected page and it should be a link to the selected page (but it should not display war syntax "[[page]]", since that`s what is going on in the background and does not concern the user). The same idea was for easily linking to users (i.e. referencing/mentioning) by typing "@" and then getting an autosuggest to link to a user's profile. These usecases are shortcuts that require some customization of XWIki`s CK in order to be supported and have nothing to do with the default CKEditor`s features or preferences. These usecases would be really nice to have, but unfortunatelly are not yet supported by XWiki, even if we`ve discussed about them in the past (I am unable to find the jira issue right now, not sure there is one). Note: After talking with Marius about this, he`s reminded me that the above usecase is much more well suited for the wiki syntax editor (and for power users), since regular users might have problems when actually trying to type in "[[" or "@", so this should not be a WYSIWYG (CK) feature. I agree with his point of view and kept the 2nd paragraph above, just for putting things into perspective. Thanks, Eduard On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:04 AM, wprussell <[email protected]> wrote:

Sorry - that doesn't help. CKEditor is a wysiwyg editor and syntax interpreter. Just like its possible to turn off HTML tagging with:

config.basicEntities : Boolean Whether to escape basic HTML entities in the document, including:

  > < &

See: http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.config-cfg- image2_altRequired

*The question is there a setting to turn off escaping [[*

Bill Russell

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Maybe not what you are looking for...but maybe you can use WikiWords for links to other pages? WikiWords Transformation <http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/WikiWord%20Transformation> -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Need-to-allow-users-to-type-in-link-in-CKE... Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.