Help:Text editor support: Difference between revisions

It is often convenient to [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|edit Wikipedia articles]] using a full-fledged [[text editor]], instead of the standard text area of a web browser. Text editors provide facilities that are very useful for writing and editing articles (especially ''long'' articles), such as [[spell checker|spell checking]], search and replace, [[Macro (computer science)|macros]], [[syntax highlighting]], and alphabetic sorting. They also provide a quick and easy way of saving a local backup copy of an article, possibly for future offline editing. [[#wikEd|wikEd]] for Wikipedia (Preferences > Gadgets > Editing) supports some of these features, and some browsers support spell-checking. In any case, you can select Wikipedia [[VisualEditor]] for a visual editing, [[wikipedia:VisualEditor|in your user preferences]].