On 11 June 2010 11:35, Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok done some checking of various scenarios. Conclusion is that it > indeed makes sense to have an escape character in the wiki syntax so > you would be able to input arbitrary sequences of characters and have > them represented properly. However not to loose to feature to use wiki > formatting in the editor this requires tight control of the inline > formatting. >
I see, thanks. > I see 3 cases: > > 1) Copy / paste text into the editor > * Add additional "copy as wiki" and "paste as wiki" actions > * Bonus would be to have "copy as mediawiki", "copy as dokuwiki" etc. > * Option in preferences for format to use for copy paste, default plain text > * Improve plain text parser to do a few non-intrusive formatting > steps, bullet lists come to mind > * Any syntax conflicting with wiki syntax should be escaped when > pasting as plain text > Yes!!! > 2) Typing in the editor > * Have a preference to control if wiki syntax is auto-formatted or not > * If not enabled any syntax will be escaped > * If enabled syntax will be reformatted on the fly so you have > immediate feedback how it is interpreted (+ undo to cancel cases were > formatting was not intended) - latest release already has a option for > auto-formatting syntax, improve upon this option. > Yes!!! > 3) Input in the "create note" dialog > * For now use same semantics as for pasting (so consider this dialog > like a clipboard when putting the note into zim) > * For future development make this dialog a full editor window > That is perectly fine for this stage of development. Thank you, Jaap! > If you have any comments please help expanding the design in the wiki > page instead of replying to this post. The link is: > http://www.zim-wiki.org/wiki/doku.php?id=escaping_wiki_syntax > > So far no plan when this will be implemented. Don't expect it to be > ready for the next release. > If I think of anything to add, I will add it there. Thank you Jaap. It need not be in 0.48, but I need to know that the day will come when I can rely on Zim. Currently, nothing fits y needs as well as Zim, I've looked! Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp