[Pmwiki-users] The [:directive:] vs. (:directive:) question

Christian Bartolomaeus bartolin
Thu Nov 11 16:31:32 CST 2004


Hello,

unfortunately I didn't manage to read the list for the last two
months. Only now I read through the old posts and saw that you decided
'the [:directive:] vs. (:directive:) question' in favor of the
latter. So, now it is to late to vote for the [:directive:] syntax.
Though I'm on a German keyboard as well, I prefer the use of brackets
for directive markup -- even if it's a bit slower to type. This way
it's just easier for me to realize at the first glance, what belongs
to the content of a WikiPage and what is a markup sequence.

Patrick, in your announcement of the release of pmwiki-2.0.devel14 you
wrote

> 'It is possible to customize PmWiki to revert back to the [:...:]
> syntax if that's still desired'--let me know and I'll make a
> cookbook entry for it.'

Does that mean that it is possible to customize PmWiki to accept
[:directive:] as input _and_ to display directives as [:directive:]
when editing existing pages? In that case it would be great to have
such a cookbook entry. Or is it only possible to customize PmWiki to
accept [:directive:] for new input while old directives are displayed
as (:directive:)? In the latter case I'll just try to get used to the
(:...:) syntax -- as you, Patrick, have in the meantime, I guess.

Thanks in advance

Christian



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