I was wondering if there was a way to save my preference for Markdown style on any page I create in Fossil. Currently, if I edit a new link or clicking on a yet non-existent wiki link, it brings up the editor but it has the default as “Fossil Wiki”, which I usually forget to switch and then wonder why my pages don’t render correctly when I preview them.

There is not currently one, but there probably/possibly should be one. Ostensibly we could simply default to whichever format appears more often in the wiki, but actually calculating that information is horribly expensive - it's not readily available in queryable form and requires reading every wiki page to figure it out.

That it defaults to fossil wiki is largely historical: that was our only wiki format for the first 3 or 4 years or so.

If there are no objections (specifically from Richard), i'll switch the default in the wiki editor and (if appropriate) ticket comment editor to markdown, which has long since become the more widely preferred option.

Could the markup style preference be saved to a cookie? We do that for skins and timeline preferences.

Andy may prefer that, since he likes the plaintext mode in the forum.

Could the markup style preference be saved to a cookie? We do that for skins and timeline preferences.

It "could", but i suspect that would just cause more confusion because cookies don't carry over to different machines and are destroyed if you log out or if your login expires. Thus the editor would "sometimes" keep that setting and "sometimes" revert to another setting, possibly leading to more frustration than simply always having to switch it. Muscle memory is a powerful and useful thing, and the setting changing from time to time as the cookie expires would break muscle memory.

That said: i'm not entirely against the idea of storing it in the cookie prefs, then applying it in all of the editors where it makes sense, but cookies are slightly fragile.

but cookies are slightly fragile.

Yep, that’s understood. Like most things, there are trade offs.

When this came up with the ticket editor back in November of 2019, drh just changed the default to Markdown.

Yes, it's a hard-coded solution, but does it not express a more likely default?

When this came up with the ticket editor back in November of 2019, drh just changed the default to Markdown.

Doh, i didn't realize the ticket editor was already set to that default. Then i'll do the same for the wiki editor.

@OP: look for this in the trunk in a short while.

Thanks Stephan! Didn’t realize I hadn’t replied to this.

Much appreciated!