[Phpwiki-talk] Re: Line breaks in new markup

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

"Paul Bloomfield" <pa...@pa...> writes:

>> why not use <br> for intentional linebreaks?
>
> The answer to that question, at least, is easy! It just isn't
> wiki. The first thing people like about a wiki is that what you type
> in the edit box appears on the web page, you don't need to use <p>
> or <br /> tags.  If you type a new line in the edit box, you want a
> new line on the web page, otherwise you wouldn't have typed it!

No, I always break my lines at around 60-70 characters when I edit my
wiki pages, just like I do when I edit code, emails or any other ASCII
text document.

Without those linebreaks the text in the textarea is more difficult to
real (IMHO) and more importantly: it also makes the diffs more
difficult to read because a one letter change in a huge paragraph
(consisting of only a single long line) makes you compare the old long
line with the new long line.  I know how the changes within a line are
highlighted, but I still don't want to see the rest of the huge line
in the diff.

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