+1

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> The {{velocity}} macro has a nice filter that removes the whitespace
> from the start of each line. This allows us to format (indent) the
> Velocity code without generating whitespace garbage.
>
> Recently I had to move some Velocity macros from a wiki page to a
> Velocity template file and the absence of this filter turned out to be
> a pita. Even if my macros were generating HTML, consecutive
> whitespaces were collapsed into a single one which was still visible,
> breaking my layout a little. Some of my macros were generating Strings
> which now contained a lot of whitespace. I had to update my functional
> tests to trim the actual text taken from the UI whenever asserting
> something.
>
> WDYT about applying the same filter when parsing Velocity templates?
> Do you see any problems with ignoring the whitespace at the start of
> the line?
>
> Thanks,
> Marius
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