On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:03 AM Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_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.s_at_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
Received on 2019-12-12 16:31:38 CET