Nathan, My point is that it IS the expected behavior for textarea, pre and code tags. That's why newbies write to you saying "my whitespace doesn't work". That's why newbies don't use the "~" in the first place, because they think "=" should work.
That being said, I'll agree that it is reasonable to demand that those tags be treated as special cases. However "find_and_preserve" is not very descriptive or elegant. And while "~" is not particularly descriptive, it is IMHO elegant. If I understood your previous posts in this thread, there are valid software engineering issues which make the deprecation a good idea. But as a user, the arguments that "it's better for you" and "it shouldn't matter to you" ring false. Regards, Jeff On Feb 12, 3:17 am, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Huh, my mistake. But the point still remains that it's a special case, > even if it /is/ used in every textarea ever created. It's certainly not > used every time someone uses "=", and it's not the expected behavior. > Yes, Haml mucking up the whitespace is a problem, but that's why there's > a solution for when that problem comes up. > > - Nathan > > Jeff wrote: > > I don't know about preloading whitespace, but typing newlines into a > > textarea is terribly common. Every blog in the universe does it. > > This message board does it. > > > JR --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
