Visual Editor should remember your last tab setting

[matt]

Whatever tab you're on in the visual editor, be it editor or code, if you leave the page when you load next time the same tab should be auto-selected.

+1

Cookie-stored preference should be good enough here. If you want to use something permanently you'd just change the RTE option.

IMO this is debatable. It could be expected that you just start with a fresh slate (the default when you have RTE enabled -- the RTE) whenever you load up the writing interface. Besides, if you use the code view most of the time, might as well switch over to it, right?

I like the idea of a cookie preference. Just because you use the code view 99% of the time doesn't mean you should have to go into your profile and flip the RTE back on the 1% of the time you want to use it.

+1 MellerTime completely agree! I regularly end up disabling the Visual to work around a bug or two and then don't re-enable for a long time, because the problems occur when the post is first edited in the TinyMCE.

#4486 dupe of this ticket

3978.diff

1. Stores editor preference in wordpress_editor_{$user_id} cookie with long expire time.
2. Loads page with correct editor for that user.
3. wpSetDefaultEditor( editor ): JS function to set cookie.
4. wp_default_editor(): PHP function that checks cookie. Is filtered so that a plugin can store this editor preference info in the DB instead of the cookie.

fixes bug when default tab is HTML

fixes bug when default tab is HTML and you are editing a pre-existing post

(In [6567]) Remember last editor chosen. Props mdawaffe. fixes #3978