Code Editor: DON’T FIX IT mode

Originally posted in WordPress support:

I was creating a post and I *always* use the code editor. I use the code editor because I want to avoid catastrophic errors and I want very granular control of my content.

Used to be, when I created an an anchor tag in the code editor but forgot the closing quote on the href attribute, I would get a post where the entire content after that fateful omission was part of the anchor. Bad, but easily repaired.

Today, in the code editor, the editor where it is assumed I know what I am doing, my post exploded. Large blocks were repeated, other parts (the most poignant and insightful ones) were just plain gone. Best guess it’s because I left out a quotation mark.

But that would break the site! It didn’t before. And seriously, any “repair” shouldn’t mean the paragraph with the error has to be repeated several times, each time usurping a little more of the rest of the post, and then the final paragraphs being lost. That is not helpful. It is the opposite of helpful.

Please, please, give me a chance to fix problems myself, rather than have the editor utterly destroy my post. I’m not asking for the editor to do a better job at repairs so it doesn’t destroy my work (although that would be nice). I don’t need your help. I don’t want your help — especially when ‘help’ means I lose work.

Don’t fix my post. Don’t touch it. All I want is an editor that takes utf-8 characters and saves them (although I would accept automatic insertion of p tags). If I break something, I will fix it.

I searched for an editor plugin that would bypass all the crap, but so far I have failed. Surely one exists?