First of all, filters like :preserve aren't meant for handling dynamically-generated text; they're meant for handling literal, in-template text with maybe some dynamic stuff sprinkled in. If you're dynamically generating text, it's better to use the #preserve helper (or ~, which is a shortcut for same).
As for the source code aesthetics, as I mentioned on IRC, there's really no good way to tell when it's possible to not use newline entities. Declaring it in the template won't work, because it's *not* safe in that template - the template still needs to be included in the layout, which will re-indent it and cause the whitespace to go wrong. The only potential solution is to have some way of declaring "this template is never going to be included in another template", something that might be added in the future. On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Twisol <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > So far I really love Haml, but I have an issue with it where it comes > to preformatted text.I have a fairly large amount of preformatted text > (generated on the fly by a Rails helper) that I'm trying to include > into my page. Using the :preserve filter, it /looks/ fine, but in the > source it's all on one line, word-wrapped to about thirty, and > completely indecipherable. > > I discussed this briefly with Nex3 on IRC, but he had to run. While > writing this message, though, I did have an idea: would it be possible > to add another tag prefix, using either a _ (underscore) or a | > (pipe), to tell Haml that the tag's indentation (or at least its > content) should be reset? Nex3 had mentioned that Haml couldn't > determine when it was safe to perserve the literal newlines because it > automatically indents text, but if you used | to reset indentation, it > seems like it would be safer for Haml to do. If that was possible, I > think "%pre|<" would work perfectly for my purposes. > > Otherwise, some advice would be very much appreciated! Thanks in > advance, > ~Jonathan Castello > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
