I have some more information–I hope that someone can help me.
The problem is to swap the default behavior and make return give a br tag and
shift return give a p tag. The TinyMCE wiki http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/Configuration
seems to say that is the way to do it is by setting forced_root_block to false.*
However, when I tried that using the Advanced TinyMCE Configuration plugin by Andrew Ozz , I found:
If I use it to set
forced_root_block to false,
nothing changes.
If I set forced_root_block to true, which I expected
to do nothing, it breaks the editor:
The buttons don't work, and anything that I type into
the Visual editor gets wiped out when I switch to html.
If I set forced_root_block to just a space,
when I typed in
test
test
test
test
test
test
it produces the following html:
< >< >test
<!-- -->
test
test
test
test
test
which displays as
test
test
test
test
test
test
after submitting.
Finally, if I set forced_root_block to div,
when I typed in
test
test
test
test
test
test
it produces
test
test
test
test
test
test
which displays as
test
test
test
test
test
test
and there seems to be no way to produce a break.
I hope that this data is useful. ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated.
