Disable syntax highlighting

[profiteroles1]

Describe the feature you'd like

Hi there, I'm looking for a way to disable the syntax highlighting in the commonmark editor. As there's already a live preview, the value of syntax highlighting seems somewhat questionable. Some of our users are complaining that the syntax highlighting and code completion requires extra work to edit out the closing tags if they're adding tags to pre-existing content

Describe the benefits this would bring to existing BookStack users

Many users prefer no code completion. It is helpful in the admin interface for editing the page header, but not in the page editor. Would be amazing if it could be configurable per-user.

Can the goal of this request already be achieved via other means?

No

Have you searched for an existing open/closed issue?

• I have searched for existing issues and none cover my fundamental request

How long have you been using BookStack?

1 to 5 years

Additional context

No response

[ssddanbrown]

Hi @profiteroles1,

I've thought about adding an option to the markdown editor menu to enable/toggle a simple plain-text textarea input instead of the codemirror editor, as a way to help with #693 while also providing better compatibility with other potential browser extensions.

It sounds like something like that may also help here? (Since that would have no active code features at all).
I'm not confident we'll be able to (reliably, need to test things) provide the editor toolbar actions & shortcuts in such a textarea, but as a worse case you could temporarily switch back to the full editor to use those features.

[profiteroles1]

Hi @profiteroles1,

I've thought about adding an option to the markdown editor menu to enable/toggle a simple plain-text textarea input instead of the codemirror editor, as a way to help with #693 while also providing better compatibility with other potential browser extensions.

It sounds like something like that may also help here? (Since that would have no active code features at all). I'm not confident we'll be able to (reliably, need to test things) provide the editor toolbar actions & shortcuts in such a textarea, but as a worse case you could temporarily switch back to the full editor to use those features.

Hi @ssddanbrown, yes, a toggle that allows the user to switch to a plain textarea input would be greatly appreciated by our user base!

[ssddanbrown]

Thanks for confirming @profiteroles1.

Within #5725 I've now added a plaintext input option which you can toggle on/off instead of the default codemirror input.
This will be part of the next feature release.