Rich editor setting in Site Admin->Options->Writing Options is unclear

[aylwin]

From a discussion on the wp-testers mailing list, it became evident that the purpose to the visual rich editor formatting setting under Site Admin->Options->Writing Options is not entirely clear: ​http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2006-February/002150.html

Currently the description of the setting is as follows:
"Users should use the visual rich editor by default"

This is not very accurate since the setting only affects new users. Therefore, I would like to propose a clearer description, like:
"Enable the visual rich editor as default for newly created users"

Of course, if anyone has a better suggestion then that would be welcome too.

[markjaquith]

Recommend that we axe the setting altogether.

[masquerade]

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[davidhouse]

It's been over a month and Mark hasn't produced a patch, so I'm stealing this one :)

[davidhouse]

Err, I don't know why that set the status to "new".

[davidhouse]

Option seemed to be broken anyway: I set it to false and created a new user, promoted them to an author and they had RTE. (verification of this would be appreciated)

Patch attached to remove it. I added 'rich_editing' to the list of deleted options in upgrade-schema.php, so if the committor could bump the DB version to make sure it gets removed, that'd be great.

[markjaquith]

The option is gone, so this is no longer relevant.