Vim Tips wiki: HTML character entities

[John Beckett]

If you edit a tip on the Vim Tips wiki, please bear in mind a new guideline:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:Special_text

Summary:
* Do not use &lt; or &gt; or &amp; (for < > &).
* Except:
  - use &lt;q-args> for <q-args>
  - use &lt;S-F1> for <S-F1> (and similar for <S-Left>, <S-Tab> etc)

I have used a bot to remove HTML character entities from all tips, except for 
the
above (and a couple of strange {{help}} template cases). For example, a tip that
used to contain "&lt;CR&gt;" now contains "<CR>". Entities other than &lt; &gt;
&amp; have not been changed.

With luck, you won't notice anything different when reading a tip, but editing 
will
be a lot easier.

The above link has some background. In brief, some research leads me to believe 
that
the MediaWiki software that processes wikitext will reliably generate valid 
HTML if
the above summary is followed.

John


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