On 03/02/2015 07:59 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
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?
I remember Trac being annoying too. It might be work-ish but I think it
would work better without markup.
/Mads
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