Make comment editor more user friendly

[namangupta01]

Currently comment editors are using markdown. It gets very difficult for the people who don't know markdown format. To make writing less difficult for them, there can be several options in comment editor just like github so that user can easily comment.

[namangupta01]

@jywarren any input?

[namangupta01]

Checkout this demo: https://simplemde.com/

[jywarren]

I love the demo but we should keep in mind the new stuff we've been adding like Horsey -- see #2832 and let's connect with @ViditChitkara ?

[jywarren]

Generally i love this direction!

[namangupta01]

Yes! I am also considering Vidit's pr while working on this.

[jywarren]

I'd also love to see the new emoji autocomplete added to with autocompleting usernames with @ and tags with # -- one PR for each.

could be interesting for @cheneyshreve with @ViditChitkara's help perhaps...

It'd mirror the implementation here: #2832

The requests it sends would also be great to pull from the API -- maybe @stefannibrasil and @milaaraujo would be able to advise!

[jywarren]

[cheneyshreve01]

Thanks @jywarren I'd love to work on this!

[cheneyshreve01]

Per your comment yesterday @jywarren about wanting new emoji autocomplete added to with autocompleting usernames with @ and tags with # -- one PR for each.

@ViditChitkara,@namangupta01, @jywarren let me know if you want me to open a new issue or how to proceed. Just let me know where I can be most helpful and I'll get to work, thanks :)

[ViditChitkara]

@cheneyshreve sure, you may create a new issue for either one of them and start working on them, we would be happy to help. As suggested by @jywarren , it would have a similar implementation as emoji Auto complete #2832 . Currently it's implemented for comments only, which could be expanded to answers as well as notes.

[cheneyshreve01]

Thank you, @ViditChitkara I will create a new issue.

[jywarren]

Hi, should we merge this into #2896 since @cheneyshreve is working on the autocomplete part? Or perhaps we could break out more specific other ways to make it friendlier?

[jywarren]

Closing this for now, thanks!