[pmwiki-users] Preformatted Text and Paragraph Indent

Chris Cox ccox at airmail.net
Wed Oct 18 23:35:05 CDT 2006


Tegan Dowling wrote:
> On 10/18/06, Chris Cox <ccox at airmail.net> wrote:
>> Tegan Dowling wrote:
>>> On 10/18/06, Chris Cox <ccox at airmail.net> wrote:
>>>> Tegan Dowling wrote:
>>>>> On 10/18/06, The Editor <editor at fast.st> wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/18/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 05:45:23PM -0400, The Editor wrote:
>>>>>>>> One thing that has irked me for a while is users that accidently leave
>>>>>>>> a space at the beginning of a line and then write a long paragraph,
>>>>>>>> messing up my display.  Is there some way to disable it?
>>>>>>> At present, no, but I know it needs to be possible.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But I also need to ask:  When you ask if there's some way to
>>>>>>> "disable it", are you asking to entirely disable the
>>>>>>> "leading spaces produce preformatted text" rule in PmWiki?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pm
>>>>>> Yes.  I don't use it for anything.  Don't need it.  Could get rid of
>>>>>> it completely.
>>>>> Ditto (just as a datum for you); this has never been anything but a
>>>>> problem to me or to anyone using any of our 40+ installed instances of
>>>>> the software.  I would disable it in a heartbeat and never look back
>>>>> -- being able to make this go away would get me one step closer to
>>>>> telling the truth about how user-friendly and undemanding the wiki is
>>>>> for a non-programming author.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jewelers, politicians, writers, community arts organizations and
>>>>> environmental awareness groups never, ever need the leading-space=pre
>>>>> feature.
>>>> But I need it.  I use it.  I love it.
>>>>
>>>> .... so there...
>>>> :-P
>>> Yeah, I figured it had to be there for a reason.  :-P
>>>
>>> But it's there for a reason that just plain never pertains to me and
>>> mine.  So having the option to get rid of it -- **as an option** would
>>> be great.
>> Which is the nice thing about PmWiki... very customizable.  Just have
>> to be careful about changing the default behavior... otherwise it
>> ceases to be the default.
> 
> Agreed, without hesitation, on both scores!
> 
> Erm.  I think that I think that.
> 
> Is making it an option to do away with the leading-space=pre rule
> somehow in violation of this principle?

Definitely not a problem!

Option switches are the best way...

> 
> I do recognize this would mean that some of the documentation would
> need to be revised, similarly to the way in which characteristics of
> WikiWords/CamelCase went from being always true to being "in some
> installations" true.

I disagreed with that change.  It was too easy to turn off....




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