Yes, buttons like that lookup button are (to me) silly. I think its some legacy in the editor code...I vaguely remember seeing that in wordpress. OK, back on topic... I'm going to test the refined set of buttons in toolbar now. When I click the bold button I just closed the bold button. And now lets try the button that is slanted, the italic button and then close it. Hang on, its time to make a I typed this text after writing this paragraph. Argh, the link won't work if I leave it as is. I clicked that I wanted a link, it asked for the url and the title and then inserted it. But there needs to be text withing the A tags. Personally, I know how to fix it. But will less experienced users? Perhaps one approach is to help them. If a person has selected text and pressed link, then have it work as it does today. However, if they have not selected text and they press the link button, then take the title text they type in and insert that as the text between the A tags. They can replace it if they want. Its automatic for beginners and a way for others to know what to change. Just an idea. So after typing all that, I am now going to go up and put some text between the A tags above that don't have any yet. As I was typing, I was missing being able to press ctrl-b to get bold. Time for a blockquote. I've not tried one with the recent forum software. I'm guessing I need to put it on a newline.
Ah, it made a newline automatically for me. So this is now within a blockquote. I'll type a little more so I can get several lines of it. Sidebar: I like coffee. I mean really like coffee. I was in Seattle for 13 years and we're all coffee addicts up there. If you ever visit Seattle, have a simple espresso or a latte at the Vivace Coffee stand on Broadway. Do it at the stand, not the inside cafe. Long story short -- the espresso will blow your mind; the latte won't even taste like coffee. The latter is like liquid manna.
That ended the blockquote. I'm curious to see how it looks. Oh, its time for some lists. In text editor like this, I find its usually a mess. I have more success using a visual editor or just editing the html manually. Here goes: OK. That was my unordered list. Now for some order in life:
  1. There is no better coffee in the world that at the sidewalk Vivace Espresso in Seattle
  2. Any talk of Blue Bottle in SFO is heresy
  3. Berlin is not a coffee city...Deutschland is not. I hear the tea is nice. sigh inside nested bold and italics
That was hard! At the end of that last line, I had to carefully press 4 buttons in exact order to close everything correctly. the close for EM STRONG LI and finally OL. Yikes. Now a test for the code button beep beep 1 2 3 that should have been code. And now a little patch:

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