Thomas De Schampheleire writes: > On March 2, 2015 7:35:36 PM CET, Sean Farley <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >>Thomas De Schampheleire writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> The subject should be non-ambiguous but let me add a little more body >>> to it: currently comments and pull request descriptions are parsed as >>> RST (restructured text). From my perspective (and that of several >>> others) this is counterproductive and not necessary: >>> >>> - when typing a comment or PR description, the fact that newlines are >>> not preserved because deemed unimportant by RST is counter-intuitive >>> and above all annoying >>> >>> - having to remember how your plain text would be parsed by RST and >>> having to work around this explicitly is counterproductive. >> >>Yeah, I definitely agree with this. >> >>> - the average user does not need the features RST provides. >>> >>> So as far as I'm concerned, RST can be removed entirely. >>> The same has been done in Unity's tree with commit >>> >>https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/kallithea/commits/09286e5ca064de6930d5bdefb9df6708eda19976 >>> >>> However, I assume that some other people will find this too harsh, so >>> we can think of compromises, for example: >> >>Why not make RST 'just work'? i.e. if a user types plain text the >>output >>is plain text. > > How do you distinguish plain text from RST?
How do other projects do this? Trac, Redmine, etc. all have some fancy formatting that seems to work-ish? _______________________________________________ kallithea-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/kallithea-general
