[pmwiki-users] Some experiments with whitespace indentation
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Oct 16 21:50:53 CDT 2005
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:29:57PM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2005-10-17 01:58 PM +1300, John Rankin is rumored to have said:
> >5. Just an observation -- matching the exact number of spaces
> > seems a bit fragile; for example this is incorrect:
>
> This is more than just an observation - it is a massive understatement.
>
> Relying on white space for any kind of markup (indents, list
> components, or preformatted text) strikes me as one of the weakest
> parts of PmWiki.
Well, we aren't really *relying* on whitespace for indents here;
there are still other mechanisms available to achieve the same
results (most notably "-->"). I just know that there's a
fairly large pool of authors (myself included) who find that
whitespace is an incredibly natural and elegant mechanism for
indicating indents, and other markups seem like a kludge.
But all of this can certainly be left as an option to be
enabled by the wiki administrator.
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