[pmwiki-users] Preformatted Text and Paragraph Indent

[Tegan Dowling]

On 10/18/06, The Editor <editor at fast.st> wrote:
> On 10/18/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 05:45:23PM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> > > One thing that has irked me for a while is users that accidently leave
> > > a space at the beginning of a line and then write a long paragraph,
> > > messing up my display.  Is there some way to disable it?
> >
> > At present, no, but I know it needs to be possible.
> >
> > But I also need to ask:  When you ask if there's some way to
> > "disable it", are you asking to entirely disable the
> > "leading spaces produce preformatted text" rule in PmWiki?
> >
> > Pm
>
>
> Yes.  I don't use it for anything.  Don't need it.  Could get rid of
> it completely.

Ditto (just as a datum for you); this has never been anything but a
problem to me or to anyone using any of our 40+ installed instances of
the software.  I would disable it in a heartbeat and never look back
-- being able to make this go away would get me one step closer to
telling the truth about how user-friendly and undemanding the wiki is
for a non-programming author.

Jewelers, politicians, writers, community arts organizations and
environmental awareness groups never, ever need the leading-space=pre
feature.