it's a shame that we have to get funky with pre and textarea. isn't the main problem with pre and textarea to do with the way in which Haml chooses to show display it's html ? i.e. indented ? would the problem be fixed if we chose Haml to display unindented? or am i missing the point ?
on a side note, can someone explain the logic behind the name find_and_preserve ? --- what are we finding ? On Feb 11, 10:22 pm, "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nathan, > > IMHO, textarea is not a "case that doesn't come up at all for most > people". It comes up for everyone who creates a form. > > Ross argues for maintaining the integrity of haml the template > langauge. When I suggested special behavior for textarea and pre, I > was arguing for maintaining the integrity of the markup that haml > produces. > > I love haml and I can live with the deprecation, but I don't buy the > arguments. ~ is no more obscure than %, - or find_and_preserve. > > -- Jeff > > On Feb 11, 1:45 am, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree with Steve. We want the Haml commands, especially those used > > most commonly (%, -, and =) to behave as intuitively as possible, not > > have special behaviors for various special cases that probably don't > > come up at all for most people. Special cases have special handlers; in > > this case, the find_and_preserve helper function. > > > As to readability, I think having an obscure command, such as "~", or > > worse yet no command at all, is much less readable than a clearly-named > > helper method. > > > - Nathan > > > Jeff wrote: > > > I needed ~ to make my textareas work. Why would one ever want the > > > unfiltered behavior for textarea and pre tags? Why doesn't haml > > > filter those tags automatically? IMHO haml breaks those tags and I > > > shouldn't have to use a filter to get the behavior I would expect. > > > > I think I should be able to say: > > > = textarea :user, :profile > > > > and get the same result as is currently returned by > > > ~ textarea :user, :profile > > > > The new methods may improve the haml source code, but from my > > > perspective as a user, they don't improve ease of use or readiblity of > > > my code. > > > > Thanks, > > > -- Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
