On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:03 AM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Nathan Hartman wrote on Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:44 +00:00: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 9:22 PM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: > > > I wanted to update the Python 3 page on the wiki, but I'm given a > choice > > > between a in-browser WYSIWYG editor and editing raw HTML. Neither of > > > these is very user-friendly to me (the default editor doesn't even > > > render correctly; the raw HTML editor puts the whole list of bullets > in > > > one long source line — without LF characters after the <br/> tags). Is > > > there any way to get something that I can copy to $EDITOR, edit, and > > > copy back? > > > > Did you solve it? > > I haven't. > > I ended up copying the HTML to $EDITOR, added a line break in every > «<br/>» between the «r» and the «/», and made the edit this way. It > seems to have worked, but when I opened the edit window again > afterwards it was again all one long line, so I'll have the problem again > next time. >From my reading of some Confluence docs and questions/answers, it appears that Confluence does not store HTML or Markdown, but rather generates that from whatever internal format it uses when request it. So, unfortunately, any HTML formatting changes won't round-trip through the wiki. I'm hoping I won't have to do such search-and-replace hacks every time; > it's as user-friendly as a steering wheel that does CAPTCHAs during > red lights. Don't give them any ideas, they might do that on self driving cars. Thanks for triaging scripts and finding those that weren't on the list. Nathan
