Hello All, since this topic has been discussed already 2007 and 2008, and I had the impression that the idea wasn't considered generally bad, I made a PITS entry (http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/01063) now. Here the text for reference and discussion:
- snip - With the current "page text in one line" page store format, it is hard to compare page data files visually and merge differences between them. Compare/merge of page data files can be very useful after PmWiki updates to track changes in wikilib.d and merge them with local customizations. The same applies for maintaining similar content in multiple wikis. There are great visual diff tools like KDiff3, Meld, Beyond Compare, WinMerge, CSDiff..., but without linebreaks, they are much less useful. Therefore I suggest an additional/alternative PageStore format where line breaks in the page text are kept unencoded. Maybe something similar to multipart MIME is suitable. Metadata in the headers, markup in the message parts. PhpWiki uses such a format at least for export/import. - snip - Oliver _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
