[pmwiki-users] Preformatted Text and Paragraph Indent

Chris Cox ccox at airmail.net
Wed Oct 18 22:56:27 CDT 2006


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.





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