Suggestion for whitespace suppression syntax: how about a minis sign
at the end of the line:
Would you like to
= link_to 'self-destruct now', :action => 'explode' -
?
similar to the <% ... -%> construct? Looks so natural to me (has it
been suggested before?).
-- Irfy
2007/4/19, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> There are two ways you could do this. The first is to use the "==" syntax
> for embedding Ruby in plan text:
>
> == #{link_to 'self-destruct now', :action => 'explode'}?
>
> The second is to use the "succeed" helper, which appends text directly after
> a chunk of Haml:
>
> = succeed '?' do
> = link_to 'self-destruct now', :action => 'explode'
>
> or
>
> = succeed '?' { link_to 'self_destruct now', :action => 'explode' }
>
> We're thinking about expanding the ability to suppress whitespace in Haml,
> though, so if you have any suggestions for what sort of syntax would be
> nice, that would be great.
>
> - Nathan
>
>
> On 4/19/07, Paul Dowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I've just been using haml for a couple of days so this might be
> > an RTFM (I did though).
> >
> > Is it possible to suppress the newline (and indentation whitespace)
> > that's automatically output? The reason is that when mixing links and
> > normal text it's nice to have the link on it's own line in the haml
> > file so that I can just use '=' and then normal ruby link_to syntax
> > (and then syntax highlighting works in eclipse).
> >
> > This automatically creates a space on either side of the link in the
> > html because of the whitespace that's generated, which is OK unless I
> > need some punctuation directly next to the link text.
> >
> > For example, this works well:
> >
> > Would you like to
> > = link_to 'self-destruct', :action => 'explode'
> > now?
> >
> > But this doesn't:
> >
> > Would you like to
> > = link_to 'self-destruct now', :action => 'explode'
> > ?
> >
> > Two slightly uglier alternatives are:
> >
> > Would you like to
> > = "#{link_to 'self-destruct now', :action => 'explode'}?"
> >
> > or:
> >
> > Would you like to
> > = (link_to 'self-destruct now', :action => 'explode'}) + "?"
> >
> > Maybe there's a better way to do this, any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > > >
> >
>
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