I noticed that Hansfn has done a great job by combining a bunch of comments into one finished tip at:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Wrap_text_in_HTML/XML_tags_after_prompting_for_the _tag_name I thought I would fix an indent for an 'if'. Then I started to wonder if a long block of code, as in this tip, should use <pre> tags rather than a space prefix on each line. Then I learnt something that others might like to know... The wiki interprets <pre> like this (I found this documented): <pre> = <nowiki> and HTML <pre> Content will not be parsed and is preformatted. Uses fixed-width font, exactly as laid out (NOT ignoring whitespace). Special characters like < are interpreted normally. Using <pre> will work with code like this: let newline = '' But, if you just prefix the line with a space, the wiki interprets the '' as italics and it displays: let newline = That is, using a space prefix can BREAK code. Also, when a reader copies text from a tip, if the tip used <pre> then you do not get an irritating space appended to each line (you do get that trailing space if a prefix space was used). I guess I should add this to a guideline somewhere... John _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
