I think the answer here is to fix the problem (i.e., the thing producing crap code), not to fix the solution (i.e., BBEdit). You cannot fault BBEdit for developing something that in all logical sense requires and relies on basic good syntax. -- Brian
On May 6, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Matt Martini wrote: > Roland and Others, > > Thanks for taking a look at this for me. Unfortunately, the html I am trying > to work with was generated, not something I wrote. > I am aware of the many coding errors and problems, yet the reason I was using > BBEdit was so that I could review the code and write > something that would parse out elements of the page and do something useful > with them (in perl). > > In the past BBEdit let me put a document like this (malformed) into a format > I could read and work with. > Presently, it just runs off the side of the page forcing lots of horizontal > scrolling. > > Maybe the developers at BareBones were "helping" us write better code by > forcing the code to be correct in order for it to be properly > formatted (perl-tidy works like this, it barfs on syntax errors and that > actually helps debugging). It would be nice however, if this change > was documented (it doesn't work the same as it did in 8.7.2) and even better > would be a "sloppy" mode that worked as it did in the past > so that we could work on broken documents. > > Matt > > > > On May 6, 2010, at 2:21 AM, Roland Küffner wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> I just had a quick look at your file. I corrected the syntax of your single >> tags: <br /> instead of <br> and <img ... /> instead of <img ...>. Each >> correction returned the formating function one step back in the "right >> direction". So, BBEdit obviously doesn't like misspelled elements (Syntax >> checking did also refuse to cooperate). Im not sure if this is an intended >> behavior and I'm also not sure if BBEdit changed on this from 8.7.2 to 9.5 >> but it might explain your findings. >> <wiseass-solution>Write proper code</wiseass-solution> >> ;-) >> >> Regards, >> Roland >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. > To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en > If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, > please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group.
