User blog:TheGoldenPatrik1/Use Source Editor Peeps

Seriously. Source Editor is infinitely better than Visual Editor. Don't believe me? Read on.

I used to be a Visual Editor-only kinda guy, clicking the Source Editor button on occasion to add templates and whatnot. And then one day I realized told me I should use Source Editor and I decided he was probably right:

1. It's faster. Instead of having to go to Source for a template, then back to resume editing, you're already in Source! This makes it way easier to add tags, links, templates, images, and a host of other things.

2. It's smarter. Unlike the Source Editor accessible via the Visual Editor, enabling Source Editor under Preferences color codes everything: links are blue, templates are tan, text formatting is dark pink, general formatting is light purple, etc. This makes it incredibly easy to pick out specific things and change/fix them.

3. It's full of bonus features. For example, you can quickly preview changes, add various symbols, use find and replace, and easily add/remove categories. Also, you can view hidden comments buried by s.

4. It's skill inducing. Seriously. You never know when having at least a basic knowledge of wikitext could come in handy. For example, templates are wikitext only—no Visual editor tools to help you out. Watcha gonna do then, eh?

So, go here right now and enable Source Editor. You can now... JOIN DA  SOURCE EDITOR PARTY