TinyMCE should have a code button

[westi]

The html editor has a code button on the quicktags bar but TinyMCE doesn't.

This is the only missing feature from TinyMCE that makes me switch to the HTML view when writing my weekly digest posts.

+1. With WordPress' long importance to the Open Source community, it seems that sharing code on a WordPress-powered site ought to be trivially easy.

There definitely needs to be a patch for this.

+1. This should be trivial to add. (I'll see how I go today.)

Okay, I am about to have a nervous breakdown from TinyMCE hacking. Getting absolutely nowhere, and now my right eyelid is twitching. Anybody else want to have a stab at this?

I'm getting somewhere. I've got a working button to wrap <code> tags around selected text. No icon yet, and if you click the button a second time, it does not remove the code tag.

I think it is because I am using execCommand('mceReplaceContent'), where something that is aware of nodes would be more appropriate.

Hm.. Are you sure TinyMCE doesn't already have a plugin to add the Code button Jeremy?

Totally, at the moment I'm just putting code in my posts in italic.

Punting to be evaluated in next development cycle due to time constraints.

Enhancements, no matter how seemingly trivial, should not be in a point release

Moving to Future Release until we have a patch for this.