in order to have a comfortable environment for adding
programming code to the swiki I've tried to create a form
that looks a follows:

This is an edit form to make it more convenient to directly write 
code examples into the swiki.<br>
This window is for text, like introduction or links in the normal
swiki/html style:<br>
<textarea name="text1" rows=4 cols=70 
wrap=virtual><?editText1?></textarea><br><br>
This Area is for your code. It can contain any special character that
will be displayed in preformatted form.
<br>
<textarea name="text2" rows=4 cols=70 wrap=virtual><?editText2?></textarea><br>
and again some normal text...
<br>

<textarea name="text3" rows=4 cols=70 wrap=virtual><?editText3?></textarea><br>


and in the show mode:
<?showText1?>
<html><pre>
<table bgcolor="#cccccc"><tr><td><?showText2?></td></tr></table></pre></html>
<?showText3?>


the preformatting <pre> should prevent special characters from being 
interpreted. This doesn't happen though, I guess because the text is 
being
interpreted before the layout happens. Is there any way around this?

My suggestion would be to use == at the beginning of a line
to start a preformatted text and again == to end it. Well,
we can still do it with <html><pre> ... </pre></html> but I wanted
to make it as easy as possible.

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