[Pmwiki-users] Re: beginners fight

[Thomas -Balu- Walter]

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:10:38AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> The use of multiple backslashes at the end of a line to generate line 
> breaks was introduced in PmWiki 0.6, because (1) everyone, including me,
> thoroughly hated the [[<<]] markup, and (2) after a LOT of discussion
> and debate, it was the best that anyone could come up with.  It has the
> advantage of being easy to write, and it keeps the markup text looking
> at least *something* like the rendered output.  

grr. And why didn't I figure that one out. I started with 0.6.something
and always used the so much hated [[<<]] 8).

-- Balu