[pmwiki-users] textarea form extensions and linebreak

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:02:47PM +0200, noskule wrote:
> hi list
> I read that pmwiki now supports default values in textarea. So previous
> extensions are not needed anymore. I checked this out with zap. The
> problem seams that pmwiki don't support linebreaks. This would mean that
> I could'nt use it to edit existing comments that allow wikimarkup ore
> use a {$:var}.

You can use a var with:

   (:input default source=SomePage :)

and then in the form:

   (:input textarea $:var:)

For multiline comments specified in the page text itself -- yes, 
there's still some work that needs to be done there.

Pm