[pmwiki-users] Preformatted Text and Paragraph Indent

[Tegan Dowling]

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.