TracFormatting link opens in the same window as the edited page text.

[agilbrt@…]

Below the text area used to edit the source of a page, there is a TracFormatting link. It would be a really, really, really good idea if this link opened in a new browser window. The current behaviour is to open the link in the same window so you lose the text that you have just spent 2 hours working on.

[Emmanuel Blot]

It would be inconsistent with all the other Trac links: -1
What if a user does *not* want to get another window/tab? - I usually don't.

I think this "ask the browser to do the user's work" question has already been debated in another ticket, though.

The current behaviour is to open the link in the same window so you lose the text that you have just spent 2 hours working on.

It's quite easy to close a browser session in many other (unexpected) ways, so the safest way is to either save your work on a regular basis or use an external editor.

As a side note that many browsers do not lose the edited (i.e. you can browse back and forward), as long as HTTPS is not in use.

[Christian Boos]

Eventually someone could contribute a patch or plugin to interpose a javascript confirmation dialog, but usually that's more annoying than anything else.