You will regret the day you decided your Drupal 6 should have a text editor. Just imagine, a major Content Management System without an editor.  I joke right.  No, Drupal 6 does not have a simple editor as part of its system.   If you want to see a text editor as part of the basic application, then better try WordPress.  I suspect that the lack of a basic text editor is the primary reason that Drupal is not considered by many developers and users.

If you google “Drupal 6” and “text editors, you will see that Drupal users have been asking for a simple text editor in the core for 4 years and no one has answered the call. What a shame.

If you noticed my Mar 15 article, Keeping the “F” in FCKeditor might be best , my conclusion in that post was that installing the new CKeditor in place of FCKeditor unleashes a host of problems if you want to maintain the ability to upload and insert inline graphics.  I finally got some time to sit down and tinker with CKeditor and CKfinder and I got it working.  But the CKfinder is not open source and requires licensing (money) to use on commercial sites.

Two years ago, Drupal 6 users cries for a text editor raised to a crescendo when the only effective text editors were farmed out through the WYSIWYG API.  Since 2008 nothing has really happened or has it? FCKeditor has gone to CKeditor and effectively kills graphic uploads.  TinyMCE drifted unsupported for awhile but now is part of WYSIWYG API if you use a bridge module and ICME.   I finally got the TinyMCE working with ICME, but be careful there are a number of incompatibles.

Conclusion, the text editor is a mess unlikely to be resolved soon.  Drupal 7 does add image handling to the core. But even after four years of users calling for a simple text editor, those calls go unheeded.