Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: need help with cvs, unable to move a directory :-(

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:44:29 -0800 (PST)
"Adam Shand" <ad...@pe...> wrote:

> i added this info the the /wiki wiki under the name PrettyWiki (sorry
for
> the bad name choice, I'm at work and will ponder a proper name later).
> however i noticed two things:

It's already (sort of) there in PageNamesInPathInfo.  (Not that that's 
any better of a name.)
 
>  * the full text search is broken (i wanted to search to see if this
info
>    was already on the wiki)

Yes.  I've fixed it in CVS, but the fix hasn't made it to the /wiki wiki
yet.
I'll work on it today.
 
>  * numeric lists don't work properly i don't think.  i think they should
>    be more generous about continuing a list, otherwise listing technical
>    docs like this is really hard (cause it keeps resetting to 1.).

You can't put blank lines between items.  (A blank link starts a whole
new <ol>.)  PhpWiki has always been this way, I think.  I don't like
it either.  The fix is not completely trivial, I think, so I've been
putting
it off (and, I think I'll continue to do so.)

>  * it would be nice if ``WikiWord`` acted as a <tt></tt>.  this was
>    discussed a while ago.  i believe the patch is trivial can we add it?
>    i also think it would be nice if the monospace tags (leading
whitespace
>    and maybe ``) escaped automatic linking of WikiWords.  i use
monospace
>    almost exclusively for technical snippets and having all the apache
>    directives show up as links is annoying.

What's the general concensus on this?  (Yes, the patch is trivial.)

Personally, I'm somewhat undecided.  I would like the ability to include
<tt> text inline.  I'm not sure I like the syntax.  (I don't like the
backticks, and would rather see nearly any other character used for the
escape.)

(I'm not sure I like the current __ and '' syntax either, but it's kind of

late to change that.  If I had the chance to do it over again today, I
think
I would do (more or less UseMod style):

  Support <i>italic</i>, <b>bold</b>, <tt>fixed</tt>.

  Support also some e-mail heuristic style markup:
     *bold*, _italic_, etc.
  (In these cases the escape characters have to be properly nestled up
  to words: * bold * doesn't work, and there's no italics in
a_packed_word.)

At least that's what I think today.


I think I'm against disabling WikiWord linkage within <tt>, though I do
like UseMods <pre> and <nowiki> tags to help with that problem.

> finally and unrelated, could the patch you sent me to allow non-wiki
word
> right had sides of interwiki links be included in cvs please?

It's already there, I think.  (In slightly modified form --- I've changed
it
so that the rhs can't contain punctuation.)


Jeff