[Moin-user] code blocks and indentation (redux)

[Poor Yorick]

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Fred Drake <fdrake at gmail.com>
>  Subject: Re: [Moin-user] code blocks and indentation (redux)
>  Sent: 2008-05-17 15:59
>  
>  On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Poor Yorick
>  <net.sourceforge.lists.moin-user at pooryorick.com> wrote:
>  > I'm aware of restructured text, but I just wanted to point out that the
>  > moinmoin wiki parser could make this improvement.  There's no ambiguity,
>  > because if someone has gone to the trouble of indenting the initial "{{{", they
>  > are clearly trying to indent the code chunk, but not double-indent it as in the
>  > current case.
>  
>  That presents the problem that existing pages can change
>  interpretation, though, which can "break" existing pages.  How serious
>  that will be, I don't know.
>  

Working more with this kind of formatting, I'm convinced it wouldn't break too
many existing pages, because no one (except me!) is likely to be using
formatting which results in such awkward presentation.  Just look how indented
the code chunks get in an example from one of my wikis:

    https://www.pooryorick.com/secure/wiki/Pub/Bash

leading whitespace indentation equal to what preceded the opening '{{{' should
definitely be stripped out.

-- 
yorick