Re: [mantisbt-help] How to include code snippets in comment?

[Grant E. <gra...@gm...>]

On 2015-03-27, Damien Regad <dr...@ma...> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@...> writes:
>
>> I want to include code and program input/output snippets in issue
>> comments, but I can't convince Mantis not to muck up the formatting.
>> 
>> I've tried using <pre> and </pre> and that helps, but Mantis is still
>> wrapping long lines and altering the indentation of some other lines.
>> 
>> How do I get unmolested text blocks into comments?
>
> By default, Mantis will wrap text within html pre tags to 100 chars. This
> width is not configurable at this time, but you can turn off this behavior
> entirely with the following setting:
>
> $g_wrap_in_preformatted_text = OFF;

Thanks!  I spent a fair amount of time Googling and searching the web
page and never managed to find that.  It looks like the messed up
indentation is always a line that follows a wrapped line, so that
should do it. 

> This might cause text to overflow, or the width to become very wide;

No worries, that's exactly what I want/expect with <pre> and </pre>.
There are times when newlines are significant in source code and in
program input/output. Creating an attachment for a half-dozen lines of
text is a PITA for everybody involved, so just turning off wrapping
should do nicely.

> at some point in the future, we'll probably replace this legacy code
> by CSS with scroll bars to display pre tags.

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