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I had the good luck to be able to try Confluence 4.3.2 at a collaborator's site and I will certainly not upgrade our installation from 3 to 4. The withdrawal of the Wiki editor (and with it the possibility to use an external editor) is a big blocker. I was hoping that the source editor plugin could be a compromise solution, but it's just like the RTE. "Copy/pasting back and forth between Confluence and your preferred desktop editor" as indicated in https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor is really not a viable option for big pages. I need a simple form field which allows me to use a browser plugin to quickly transfer the contents between the form and my preferred external editor forth and back repeatedly.
Even better would be if you would support something like this https://wikitechcomm.onconfluence.com/display/CONF/Wiki+markup+toolbar+button which lets me edit at least simple pages in wiki syntax in my external editor. If you cannot/do not want to translate all your new XHTML features into wiki syntax and back, just give users a warning when a page contains features that cannot be translated, but let them work with wiki syntax when it's possible.
I would also strongly prefer a simple text area. While the current solution does provide some sort of syntax highlihting, it does not support copy & paste:
pasting with shift+insert does not work (paste clipboard)
pasting with middle mouse button does not work (paste selection, used mostly to paste from consoles)
Copying works only partially - you can copy into clipboard, but if you just mark a selection and then use middle mouse button to paste it into console - it does not work
Ordinary text area does not suffer from any of these shortcomings.
And due to major bugs in the visual editor (the visual editor somehow fails to grab keyboard shortcuts used by browser that are disabled in text areas or in other visual editors on other sites, so pressing "c" will open cookie manager, pressing "z" will go back to previous page (and instantly losing all the changes you've edited), etc .... the visual editor is even less usable than the source editor (at least copying and pasting works there though).