Earl Walker wrote:

>
> Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 2:44:38 PM, mrzoon wrote:
>
> > I'm getting really tired of editing snips containing HTML given
> > vanilla's propensity for interpreting whitespace as carriage
> > returns. If I edit the HTML in a "pretty" format, vanilla stretches
> > the resulting page out mindlessly; if I remove all white space, the
> > result is correct, but editing is hell. What's the point of all the
> > newlines? Where is this happening? Does this work this way because
> > of something else important, or can it be changed?
>
> the original idea was that you can simply press enter twice and get
> usual paragraph formatting. however, we all know about the lousy state
> vanilla's html is in, and this paragraph formatting should better be
> done using real <p> tags and not <br>.
>
> you can circumvent this processing by prepending a newline with a \ -
> e.g.
>
> -- snip --
> foo\
> \
> bar\
> -- snip --
>
> will result in "foobar" being rendered.
>
> if you want to disable it alltogether, in vanilla.r there is a
> function called html-format which calls html-format-breaks. simply
> comment out (prepend a ';') the call the html-format-breaks and this
> behaviour will be gone - for everthing and forever. (or at least until
> you uncomment it again :)


thanks, earl... once again, the "royal" treatment :)

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