My personal web site has been built on Drupal 6 for some time now, although to be honest I haven't done much with it. I am now starting to consider migrating to drupal 7 and using it a bit more to write a blog. I am beginning to realise that I have some issues with using a Wysiwyg editor in combination with the geshi filter (gives pretty syntax highlighting to code segments).

When I originally set the site up, I installed both the CKEditor module and the Wysiwyg module side by side as I thought the former needed the latter. Yesterday, after updating all the modules to the latest versions (in the 6.x series) I discovered for the first time that they don't seem to be playing nice together. In particular the CKEditor module required the CKEditor plugin in one place, and the Wysiwyg module required CKEditor plugin in sites/all/libraries. Anyway, I resolved that by removing the CKEditor module, and now just have the wysiwyg module loaded.

However, I wanted to write an article with embedded code (bash script as it turns out), and wanted to insert a preformatted section with <code> surrounding the script.

The idea being that a geshi filter is configured as an input filter and the <code> tag triggers it to add syntax highlighting to the code segment.

However:-

a) You set up wysiwyg to use the CKeditor on the appropriate input format (in my case filtered HTML) and then try and assign buttons for it to use. There doesn't appear to be a button to insert a <code> tag.

So my first question, is there a way of configuring the editor/wysiwyg module so that this functionality can be provided?

b) The editor seems to reformat code which I want to remain preformatted. In particular it seems to always remove the new lines.

Is there any way to tell the editor not to reformat a certain section of the code?