[pmwiki-users] Highlight differences in the history

[Christian Ridderström]

Hi,

I just had an unknown user correct a spelling error on a wiki page. Since 
I didn't know this user I wanted to check what he'd done in case it was 
spam. When I used the history link, I couldn't really see any changes. 
Then I showed the changes to the markup, in case some spam link was 
hidden with the changes. Unfortunately I still couldn't see what he'd 
actually changed (I've copied the output from the history to the end of 
this post in case you're curious).

Because of this, I'd like to suggest that we eventually add some kind of 
highlighting of the actual changes. Should I add this as a PITS entry?

(Highlighting text where markup is rendered might be difficult, but it 
should be less of a problem when you show changes to the markup).

It might also make sense to show changes side by side (using a table).

regards,
/Christian

[*] Below are the two version of the texts (when viewed as changes in the 
markup). You'll probably find it difficult to detect what he actually 
did... I appended the answer at the end of this post:

2008-08-27 00:58 CEST by epictetus - spelling
Changed line 136 from:

* Did you know LyX supported horizontal spaces like %ert%\qquad%% and 
%ert%\enskip%% as of 1.4.0? No? Probably, because they only could be 
accessed via esoteric LyX functions. Now LyX comes with a Horizontal Space 
dialog, which lets you chose from a range of predefined horizontal spaces, 
similar to the established Vertical Space dialog. This dialog also 
contains the horizontal fill which was implemented as an inset of its own 
previously, and, as new features, custom horizontal space (LaTeX: 
%ert%\hspace%% and %ert%\hspace*%%) as well as horizontal fills with 
patterns (LaTeX: %ert%\dotfill%%, %ert%\hrulefill%%, 
%ert%\rightarrowfill%%, %ert%\leftarrowfill%%, %ert%\upbracefill%% and 
%ert%\downbracefill%%).

to:

* Did you know LyX supported horizontal spaces like %ert%\qquad%% and 
%ert%\enskip%% as of 1.4.0? No? Probably, because they only could be 
accessed via esoteric LyX functions. Now LyX comes with a Horizontal Space 
dialog, which lets you choose from a range of predefined horizontal 
spaces, similar to the established Vertical Space dialog. This dialog also 
contains the horizontal fill which was implemented as an inset of its own 
previously, and, as new features, custom horizontal space (LaTeX: 
%ert%\hspace%% and %ert%\hspace*%%) as well as horizontal fills with 
patterns (LaTeX: %ert%\dotfill%%, %ert%\hrulefill%%, 
%ert%\rightarrowfill%%, %ert%\leftarrowfill%%, %ert%\upbracefill%% and 
%ert%\downbracefill%%).











Answer: s/chose/choose/ in fourth line.


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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44            http://www.md.kth.se/~chr