GhostText cannot detect or edit TinyMCE content

[BirdyOz]

Description and repro

Many technologies, including Moodle are adopting TinyMCE as their preferred Rich Text Editor, moving away from other RTE's such as ATTO.

GhostText is unable to detect or interact with content within TinyMCE. My suspicion is twofold:

1. That the TinyMCE editor loads within an iframe
2. That the TinyMCE editor itself does not contain a <textarea> element. Rather, it seems to update a hidden textarea field in the parent/lauching doc.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visit Basic example | TinyMCE Documentation
2. Attempt to use GhostText to connect to your preferred IDE (for me, this is SublimeText)

Browser(s) tried

Chrome

Editor(s) tried

SublimeText

[fregante]

Yes it's not supported. PR welcome to add support for the field

[fregante]

Note that TinyMCE is a WYSIWYG field, which GhostText hasn't supported at this point.

More such fields can be found on this page too: https://pbx.vercel.app/advanced-fields/#draftjs

[BirdyOz]

Hi fregante. Thankyou so much for your prompt reply. I take it from this that GhostText is unlikely to support TinyMCE or other WYSIWYG/RTE editors in the near future.

It might have been a happy accident that it has worked so well with the ATTO editor for so long. I have found GhostText invaluable in my Moodle development. Fortunately, I think I have a year before Moodle fully deprecates the ATTO editor, so I'll have to adjust for (or mourn for) its loss.

Thanks for your amazing product

[rahji]

I don't see the WYSIWYG editor that Reddit uses in that page but it, too, doesn't work with GhostText. (It does seem to try). I was hoping that it would work when switching to "Markdown Editor" since that looks more like a plain textarea. If getting GhostText to work with some of this editors isn't feasible, maybe the Reddit Markdown Editor is a more realistic fix.