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I'm trying to create a simple wiki list with headers, then a list with two levels of bullets, and the occassional hyperlink. Sometimes I need to move items up and down the list so I have to copy/paste them. Sometimes, the linebreaks/paragraph breaks seems to get totally messed up and I have to cut and paste unformatted text and then remove the line endings.

Is there a better process? Without having to go through a plain text editor?

This is in firefox and IE8 with FB7.

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I have sunk as low as selecting all but the first and last character on a line, moving that to the new location, fixing the formatting and then re-typing the characters. I also try changing formatting first and then moving it.

Unfortunately, neither technique works consistently.

The best solution is, when your are typing it the first time, make it exactly as you want the finished page to look like. What... Mozart could do it!

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Hee! (15 chars).. – Rich Armstrong Mar 2 2010 at 20:42
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Short answer: there's no good way to do this, and we should do a better job of it. I'm sure when we next do a push on the wiki, support for this use case will be included.

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Any idea on when additional Wiki support is likely to happen? (will it be 6 months? a year? 2 years?) – cdeszaq Mar 25 2010 at 13:22
It's really difficult to say right now. It's a major issue, but it is balanced with a lot of other pressing development needs. – Rich Armstrong Mar 25 2010 at 13:43
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When wiki pages get messed up, I usually end up switching to the HTML editor, where I find that there's a bunch of junk tags. I delete the junk, and the problem is fixed.

Actually, that's not quite true--usually our badly formatted wiki pages just stay badly formatted. A better approach would certainly be appreciated.

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