Use the same visual editor for comments as for card description

[kbakaras]

Which part of the project does this feature apply to?

Frontend

What would you like?

It would be great if comments used the same visual editor as the card description.
In short: comments already support Markdown rendering, but lack a visual editor during editing. Reusing the existing description editor for comments would significantly improve usability.

Why is this needed?

Currently, Planka provides a convenient visual (WYSIWYG) editor for the main card description, which makes writing and editing formatted content very comfortable.

However, comments use a plain text editor during input. At the same time, Markdown syntax entered in comments is rendered correctly after saving, which indicates that Markdown is already supported at the rendering level.

It would be great if comments used the same visual editor as the card description. This would:

• Improve consistency of the user experience
• Make writing structured comments (lists, emphasis, links, etc.) more convenient
• Reduce the need to manually write and preview Markdown syntax

Other information

Version: Planka 2.0.0-rc.4

[meltyshev]

Hey! The only reason it hasn't been done yet is that we need to port mentions to the visual editor - right now, mentions only work in a simple textarea (since it's a React plugin for textareas). As a bonus, we'll also be able to support mentions directly in the description.