[pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

Kathryn Andersen kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org
Sun Mar 25 17:00:13 CDT 2007


On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:48:26AM +0100, marc wrote:
> > Tegan Dowling said...
> > > On 3/24/07, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> It's even less obvious that something as small as a single leading
> space is the problem.  When we explain the reason for the long lines
> to authors, it somewhat makes sense, but at the same time this feels
> to them like this is a "programmer's feature" and so perhaps the wiki
> really isn't for them.

I'm wondering if there could be a compromise: rather than having a
*single* leading space trigger preformatting, there could be a certain
number of leading spaces required, like four or eight. One or two spaces
are likely to be accidental, eight spaces, less so.
 
Kathryn Andersen
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