[pmwiki-users] Would you accept a patch to ignore linefeeds after << ?

Jo Rhett jrhett at svcolo.com
Thu May 25 17:41:34 CDT 2006


Also note that >><< *MUST* be on a line by itself or it won't be
recognized.  So the current behavior is inconsistent within itself.

>>start<<there is where content must start

but you'd can't end like this>><<

you have to instead end like this
>><<

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:32:58PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> There is a fairly annoying situation here:
> 
> >>pre<<
> $ ls -la
> $ rm -rf /
> >><<
> 
> No, not the second command (don't try this at home) ;-)
> 
> The problem is that the parser reads a leading blank line there.  To get it
> to display properly you need to do this
> 
> >>pre<<$ ls -la
> $ rm -rf /
> >><<
> 
> Which is as ugly as sin and hard to read.
> 
> If I made a patch which looked for and removed/ignored whitespace*linefeed{1}
> after a >><< tag, would you accept it?
> 
> I can't imagine that it would break anything, and it would work as expected
> for most people.
> 
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