Nathan Hartman wrote on Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:31 +00:00:
> 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.

Thanks for looking into that, Nathan.

> > 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.

"Install breathalyzers in the driver's sun visor."  Sorry, but I needed those 
$0.0083 :P

> Thanks for triaging scripts and finding those that weren't on the list.

You're welcome.  To be clear, I just happened to run across one script
that wasn't in the list, but I have not checked whether any other
scripts are missing from the list.

Cheers,

Daniel

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