[pmwiki-users] block preformat, spaceless?

[Dominique Faure]

At Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:44 PM [GMT+1=CET], Russ Fink wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to do spaceless block preformat - that is, preformat
> multiple lines without prefixing each line with a single space?
> 
> The first reason is that I wish to include snippets of code
> (specifically, awk script and Python programs) by cutting/pasting, and I
> want the reader to be able to select/copy from the web browser and paste
> into their editor directly.  Currently, if I prefix each line with a
> single space to get the preformatting, the reader's select/copy would
> pick up the leading space requiring them to delete it.
> 
> The second reason is that MoinMoin does it!  Heh heh...
> 
> I was hoping the "[@  @]" or "@@ ... @@" construct would break across
>  lines. Currently, "@@" sort of works, but it requires adding "\\" to
> the end of each line, and then it deletes all other leading spaces.
> 
> Is there a way to have spaceless multiple-line preformatting?
> 

Hi,

You definitely should try http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SourceBlock
(sorry not to have it registered into Cookbook main page)...

Regards,
Dom