"Delimiter" is not valid at this position, expecting CREATE - mysql

Question

I was getting an error of "Delimiter" is not valid at this position, expecting CREATE" as I was writing a stored procedure and couldn't figure out the cause. I think it might be an issue with MySQL workbench possibly, because the following code gives the same error but was copied straight off of this website.
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE GetTotalOrder()
BEGIN
DECLARE totalOrder INT DEFAULT 0;
SELECT COUNT(*)
INTO totalOrder
FROM orders;
SELECT totalOrder;
END$$
DELIMITER ;
Edit: My real stored procedure is:
DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE GetSimilar(inputdate char(10))
BEGIN
Declare id(tinyint) DEFAULT 0;
Set id := (select t.IdTimelineinfo
From timelineinfo t
WHERE t.Date = inputdate);
SELECT t.Date From timelineinfo t where t.date = inputdate;
SELECT o.Name, o.Race, o.Sex, o.IdOfficer
FROM timelineinfo
JOIN timelineinfo_officer ON timelineinfo.IdTimelineinfo = timelineinfo_officer.IdTimelineinfo
JOIN officers o ON timelineinfo_officer.IdOfficer = o.IdOfficer
WHERE timelineinfo.IdTimelineinfo = id
UNION
SELECT s.IdSubject, s.Name, s.Race, s.Sex
FROM timelineinfo
JOIN timelineinfo_subject ON timelineinfo.IdTimelineinfo = timelineinfo_subject.IdTimelineinfo
JOIN subjects s ON timelineinfo_subject.IdSubject = s.IdSubject
WHERE timelineinfo.IdTimelineinfo = id;
UNION
Select *
From media m
Where (m.IdTimelineinfo = id);
END //
DELIMITER ;

Answer 1

Watch out where you edit the procedure SQL code. There's a dedicated routine object editor (just like there are for tables, triggers, views etc.), which only accept SQL code for their associated object type. Hence they don't need a delimiter and even signal an error if you use one.
On the other hand you can always directly edit SQL code in the SQL IDE code editors, where no such special handling is implemented. In this case you need the delimiter.