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A WYSIWYG rich-text editor for GitHub issues, comments and pull requests. Powered by CKEditor.
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# About
GitHub Writer is a WYSIWYG rich-text editor for GitHub. The extension is available when creating or commenting on issues, reviews, pull requests, and wikis.
It provides all the features available in the GitHub plain-text editor, including Markdown input. For features like tables, it offers a much easier experience in comparison to plain-text Markdown and allows users to be more productive. No more switching to the Preview tab to see what you write!
It is powered by CKEditor 5, a modern JavaScript rich-text editor.
GitHub Writer is an Open Source project and your questions, feedback and contributions are always welcome.
Latest reviews
- (2023-11-13) Justin Goldberg: Great extension! A WYSIWYG editor like this is needed for ALL web sites with comment input fields, if there is a way to detect if a website supports markdown input. Or perhaps the user could manage the allow list, like great suspender does.
- (2023-10-12) Simon Fricker: Great plugin, just what I have been looking for. Are you able to make this plugin work on ZenHub too?
- (2023-10-04) Ahmet Alp Balkan: Really would like to have <summary><details> macro, too.
- (2023-07-12) Marcin Wisnicki: Doesn't work on Wiki pages
- (2023-06-22) 쿠아: If you use this, the "Generate release notes" button disappears from the release.
- (2023-05-12) Justice Conder: I really love this but it has stopped worked for me now.
- (2023-02-16) John Salib: It is a really really nice extension, but unfortunately, when trying to drag and drop a video in the PR description it doesn't work. This is an essential part of my daily work so I couldn't proceed longer with it and had to remove it :( If they fix it, I will start using it the second they publish the update
- (2023-01-13) Pedro Renan: Awesome! This is a great tool and increase backstage techdocs experience!
- (2022-09-16) Slim H K: ESSENTIAL app for anyone working on GitHub. Good documentation = good software. The only downside is that it doesn't work on Android browser.
- (2022-08-25) Szymon Cofalik: After using this for a longer time, I can't imagine using GH without this extension.
- (2022-04-08) D. V.: Very useful extension. It doesn't work in all situations, and some things are impossible to write (like a table in a bullet list)
- (2022-04-05) Piotrek Koszuliński: I'm a core CKEditor 5 developer (on which GH Writer is based) so I'm surely biased :D However, I can't imagine working without GitHub Writer anymore. It's so much more convenient to see the actual content that I'm writing, not its source – it gives me certainty that after posting it all will look good. The readability of the content while editing it is also much better – you see the structure (headings, lists) and e.g. images. From UX perspective, working with lists, images and tables is also easier in GitHub than in Markdown, especially when creating more complex content.
- (2021-01-28) Xedd MrC: An extremely helpful tool for those who just want to get readme.md and other MD things done without having to format everything manually
- (2020-10-14) Emily: Pretty wonderful! Thank you for this! I used it to make editing a massive table in an issue far simpler to update - loving it! The only downfall is the lack of merging available for cells, both horizontally and vertically. I worked round it by just removing some data to make the epic issue smaller anyway, so it ended up not being a problem.
- (2020-07-03) Piotr Maciejewski: Very useful. Makes writing on GitHub much easier.
- (2020-07-01) Rick Y: Amazing tool，thanks !
Latest issues
- (2023-06-01, v:1.10.1) Bryan: Bug - Issue when approving PR with comment
I'm not able to approve a PR with a comment without disabling the githubwriter plugin. I can submit a comment or approve.. just not approve while there's a comment. Its very easy to reproduce if you want details. - (2023-04-06, v:1.10.1) Anoir Ben Tanfous: .md files
Please make it work for .md files, I've seen in the repo that it was implanted but it doesn't work... - (2022-01-18, v:1.8.1) Mike Hampton: Is private github supported?
We have a private github instance (github.<company>.com) Does the plugin support this? When I installed it, it did not show up, but it did appear in github.com. - (2021-03-20, v:1.8.0) James Davis: Does not work
Installed addon on updated Chrome. Clicked on the green icon and nothing happens except popup of "A WYSIWYG rich-text editor for GitHub issues,.." No way to activate editor; no option for that visible. Looked for instruction on how to use; no help. ??? James - (2020-10-21, v:1.6.0) D. V.: When I type a capital "S" In the editor, it loses focus.
All in the title. If I revert to " Edit Markdown (nostalgia) " the problem is gone. As soon as I return to CKEditor, the issue is back. Note that may be of importance: I'm using a French locale.