Ability to edit sections of wiki pages

[wsdookadr]

As a wiki page gets very long, it's easier to edit a section of it instead of the whole thing.
I've migrated to Otterwiki from Dokuwiki, where there is an "Edit" button after each section allowing someone to update only that section.

Or instead of the "edit section" button, when pressing e (or E) while reading a specific section, only that section will be edited. This would keep the interface light, while at the same time offering the ability to edit only a part of the document.

It would be useful because otherwise one has to scroll to the point of interest.

Please consider this feature request.

[redimp]

Hi @wsdookadr,

Thanks for suggesting this feature! I agree that editing long wiki pages can be cumbersome, and I appreciate you bringing this up.

I share your concern about potentially cluttering the page with too many edit buttons. One possible solution is to only display the edit icon on hover over a section header, similar to how the anchor icon works.

While we can't change the default e shortcut without disrupting existing user habits, we could consider using Shift-e as an alternative shortcut for editing a section, with using either the mouse cursor or geometry of the displayed page to identify which section should be edited.

Regarding the preview: How should the edited section be displayed? Should it only show the changes made to that specific section, or should the entire page be previewed with the current section highlighted? Also, how will we handle elements like footnotes that exist in other sections of the page?

[wsdookadr]

[preview] Should it only show the changes made to that specific section?

I think yes, it's less information

how will we handle elements like footnotes that exist in other sections of the page?

Interesting edge-case. It can happen that the footnote reference and footnote definition do not both live in the same section. So one is inside, and the other outside. If both are brought into view for editing, then they would both have to be updated where they live, and that's high effort (parsing the entire document to extract them so they can be brought into view, it's a lot).

Maybe, a simple information box would suffice to inform the user that footnotes would require editing the entire document?