[pmwiki-users] formatting, indent
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Feb 6 07:57:05 CST 2006
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:03:33AM +0100, Jean DEMARTINI wrote:
> the tag ->> seems OK but I understand the objection raised by Stephan. A
> null character could be useful to resolve ambiguities.
PmWiki already has a null character, it's [==] . Using %% also often
works.
> For instance:
>
> ->>blah, blah
>
> gives:
> >blah, blah ...
> blah, blzh.
If we add the ->> syntax, then the above would render with a leading
greater-than sign. I think it's very unlikely that anyone is using
"->>" in pages for anything at the moment.
> The NULL character is a terminator for all tags but is rendered by nothing.
> In fact the problem is more general: Is the parsing stopped as soon as a
> tag is recognized or is the parsing is pursued till the longest tag is
> recognized ?
It depends on the construction of the pattern matching rules
and the order in which their applied -- PmWiki doesn't think of
things in terms of tokens in the traditional programming language
sense.
Pm
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