Re: Vim Tips wiki: HTML character entities

[Ben Schmidt]

> 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)

So...what makes the cetera? It's evidently not everything that looks
like a tag, because <CR> is explicitly excluded. Is it the hyphen? Does
it therefore include <f-args> and such in addition to those in your
first point? In short, can you actually define the exceptions rather
than giving a somewhat ambiguous list from which to infer them?

Cheers,

Ben.

> 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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