[Zope] ZWiki/Structured Text formatting surprise

[Jim Fulton]

Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> > I suggest that, since this appeared in a code snippit to begin
> > with, it should have been written as:
> >
> >   blah blah '(_.None,_,foo)' blah blah
> 
> I don't format my code like that ;-)

I'm not sure what the ';)' refers to, but single quotes are
the correct way to indicate literal code in structured text.

(snip)
> > If you do, please suggest an escaping syntax. Please
> > think hard to come up with an escaping syntax that I don't hate. ;)
> 
> How about extending ! beyond just escaping WikiNames?

I *really* **really** hate the ! wiki name escape.

> ! escapes structured text if it directly precedes a formatting
> character.
> !! actually puts a ! if it does indeed need to proceed a formatting
> character.
 
I really don't like this.

Jim

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