I didn't realize that legacy-compatibility is the main reason the default is
nolinebreaks. That makes me think new wikis might well want to use linebreaks
instead. But there is a problem: it's hard to write pages if you can't be sure
what the default behavior is. Thus we all stick with nolinebreaks - and so the
legacy perpetuates.
There is an easy solution, if we want to allow (or even encourage) the PmWiki
community to gravitate toward linebreaks as default, which I suspect (but am
not sure) is more author friendly. Just add this to the core:
$OriginalLinebreaksSetting = $HTMLPNewline;
Markup('resetlinebreaks', 'directives',
'/\\(:resetlinebreaks:\\)/ei',
"PZZ(\$GLOBALS['HTMLPNewline'] = '$OriginalLinebreaksSetting')");
Then authors who want their pages to work in more than one wiki can write:
(:linebreaks:)
I really need
two lines here
(:resetlinebreaks:)
But I don't want to change the default behavior
by closing with (:nolinebreaks:) if that wasn't the original setting.
If others want this directive in the core, we can add a PITS request.
Randy
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Petko Yotov wrote:
> On Thursday 12 August 2010 18:43:49, Paul Gupta wrote :
>> Just curious pmwiki-users! Why isn't this the *default* behavior?
>
> For historical and compatibility reasons.
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