User talk:TheDJ/Actual Live Preview

Show preview on first edit

I'm really enjoying the script. Thanks!

The one difficulty I'm encountering, is that it doesn't follow my preference for a disabled "Show preview on first edit" (mw-input-wppreviewonfirst). This is a problem if I want to revert an edit to a very long page - usually I click "undo", check the diff, write an edit summary, and then save. But the automatic live-preview makes this a bit more complicated, and it also hides the diff completely (after the page finishes loading). Any chance this could be worked around? :-) Quiddity (talk) 22:48, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Troubleshooting

Can't get this to work—perhaps it has something to do with not having the side-by-side editor layout? Doesn't appear to be the fault of using Monobook instead of Vector. Not sure what error reporting I can provide here. czar 20:00, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

• Referenced this script in the meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Editing/Live preview czar 20:06, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Czar, you need to have the "Show previews without reloading the page" option in the Editing section of your preferences enabled as well. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:01, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

@TheDJ, yep, I do and have had it enabled as long as I can remember. czar 23:03, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Official feature

For anyone coming across this tool/script, the WMF is working on an official version of it: meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Real Time Preview for Wikitext czar 15:59, 31 July 2022 (UTC)