[pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Re: Example of problem with long code line

[chr at home.se]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:41:03PM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> > Ok (I would have that thought that introducing something like (:pre:) 
> > would be orthognal to the 'leading whitespace' part at least, but maybe 
> > not.)  Maybe we should do a cookbook page for introducing (:pre:) so that 
> > people (well, I:-) can play with it? I'm guessing you add something like
> > 	Markup('preformatted','block','/^(\\(:pre:\\))/','<:pre,1>');
> > but I have a feeling I'm not 100% here...
> 
> Just a general note -- it might be wise to choose something other
> than "(:pre:)" for a cookbook markup at the moment.

Ok, good to know. (I was thinking about (:preformatted:) anyway)

>  It's very analogous to (:table:), and I have designs on (:div:) and
> possibly (:pre:) in the relatively near future.  So we might end up with
> a case where the cookbook markup conflicts with a future PmWiki
> standard.

> And I just *know* this is going to prompt many to the question of 
> "how do we make sure such conflicts don't occur in the future?" :-) :-) 

Why? It's no like we can :-)

> I think that the answer is that it's fairly rare and so I'm not 
> going to worry about it too much right now.  If you're really concerned
> about it, just put a "x-" in front of the directive name and you won't
> ever conflict.

/C

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr