<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Oh, get a life. Even Notepad doesn't work that way (if it ever did).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Even Big Blue machines come with Linux, or at least a Posix-conformant<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">file system, so these systems aren't as intimately tied to fixed-length<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">records as they used to be ten years ago.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Sure, you might still encounter sites with "legacy" toolchains that<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">limit line lengths. But even these can use a tool to convert between<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">conventions.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jo,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I don't know whether you're getting overly emotional, but I found a couple of your comments perturbing. While we are all passionate about PmWiki, I ask that you please refrain from insulting members of the group whom you disagree with.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm a poet. I've written hundreds of poems. It was a labor of love putting them in PRE blocks in HTML back in 1996 when I started my first (static) website and it would be a pain (before the markup for blocks with significant line-breaks existed) to put them into the wiki, because every line break and indeed indent is incredibly significant.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, PmWiki was made with many authors in mind. When I'm cutting & pasting from email, I'm HAPPY that PmWiki treats text the way it does. If you want to change the default behavior on your sites, I'm sure that PM can give you an idea for how to do so (although I suggest you put it into an "if not group=pmwiki" clause). To test out what it would do to your site try adding the (:linebreaks:) markup to a group header (Group.GroupHeader) page and check out what it does to the group.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You can probably change the behavior on any of your websites. However I'm not sure I'd want it changed in the core -- I don't think it's obsoleted.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>