Revision: 3798
Author: pekka.klarck
Date: Mon Jul 12 05:34:46 2010
Log: mention new robot-mode.el and some other editing enhancements
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/source/detail?r=3798
Modified:
/trunk/doc/userguide/src/CreatingTestData/TestDataSyntax.txt
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--- /trunk/doc/userguide/src/CreatingTestData/TestDataSyntax.txt Mon Jul 12
04:37:19 2010
+++ /trunk/doc/userguide/src/CreatingTestData/TestDataSyntax.txt Mon Jul 12
05:34:46 2010
@@ -167,9 +167,11 @@
Microsoft Excel. Select the tab-separated format when you save the
file and remember to set the file extension to :path:`.tsv`. It is
also a good idea to turn all automatic corrections off and configure
-the tool to treat all values in the file as plain text. The TSV format
-is also relatively easy to edit with any text editor, especially if
-the editor supports visually separating tabs from spaces.
+the tool to treat all values in the file as plain text.
+
+TSV files are relatively easy to edit with any text editor,
+especially if the editor supports visually separating tabs from
+spaces. The TSV format is also supported by RIDE_.
Robot Framework parses TSV data by first splitting all the content
into rows and then rows into cells on the basis of the tabular
@@ -294,13 +296,19 @@
Editing and encoding
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-The biggest benefit of the plain text format over HTML and TSV
-is that it is very easy to edit using normal text editors.
+One of the biggest benefit of the plain text format over HTML and TSV
+is that editing it using normal text editors is very easy. For Emacs__
+there is even a special `robot-mode.el`__ that provides syntax
+highlighting and keyword completion. The plain text format is also
+supported by RIDE_, although it only supports the space separated
+variant.
+
+__ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
+__ http://code.google.com/p/robot-mode/
Similarly as with the TSV test data, plain text files are always expected
to use UTF-8 encoding. As a consequence also ASCII files are supported.
-
reStructuredText format
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