Package: toot Version: 0.27.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: debbug.t...@sideload.33mail.com
When posting from the commandline, if -e is used then a template states that lines beginning with a hash (“#”) are ignored. This is a problem because it’s very often useful to begin a line with a hashtag. It’s in fact common to write just hashtags on the last line of a message. It’s unclear¹ why users would want to put comments in a temporary text file that will be destroyed right after posting, but certainly a hash symbol should be avoided. Possible alternatives: % LaTeX and Erlang comments go from percent symbol to EOL /* comments in C, graphviz and many other languages² begin with forward slash asterisk and end with */ // C++ comments go from // to EOL -- Ada comments go from -- to EOL ; Forgot where I’ve seen this but some app’s comments go from semicolon to EOL <!-- HTML comments begin with left angle bang 2 hyphens and end with --> [//]: # (markdown comments are complicated) Considering some simplified subset of HTML is specified for activitypub posts, HTML comments may be the most suitable. Possible other bugs: I’ve only identified this bug in the CLI version specifically in conjunction with using an editor. I have not tested what happens to lines beginning with hash when the text body is supplied on the commandline, or what happens in the TUI. If the pure non-interactive CLI approach is affected, then it would be a bug that the man page does not cover it. footnotes: ① implementation of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038664 would make comments more useful ② https://web.archive.org/web/20230301231734/geekflare.com/how-to-add-comments/
