On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:33:37PM -0500, Randy Brown wrote:
> I didn't realize that legacy-compatibility is the main reason the default is 
> nolinebreaks. 

It's not simply legacy compatibility... nolinebreaks is also my preference.
This setting is also the default per the WikiCreole 1.0 standard
(http://wikicreole.org/), as well as being the standard that Wikipedia
(MediaWiki) uses for its markup.

In the case of WikiCreole, there was a very long discussion arguing the merits
of both sides before finally selecting on the behavior that PmWiki and other
wikis tend to use by default.  
See http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Talk.ChangeLinebreakMarkupProposal .

In short, I don't expect us to be changing the default setting anytime
soon.  I recognize that there are many sites that would prefer the other
setting to be the default and they have very good reasons for wanting that
default... which is why $HTMLPNewline exists.

If there's enough demand to warrant adding a (:resetlinebreaks:)
markup, I'm not very opposed to doing so.

Pm

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