Karin, I appreciate you pointing this bug out. I've noticed it in the past but as it never really posed a problem I haven't gotten around to looking into it more closely. We've had a few problems with character encoding issues, and have most of them knocked out, but evidently this is one we've overlooked.
In exploring the issue a bit more, I discovered some rather frustrating challenges. I was able to get the page content to save properly with little trouble, but the display is a bit trickier. Mostly because those changes result in other slashes getting inserted in rather quirky ways. After doing a good bit of research I think I found the explanation: The /e parameter evidently adds slashes to ' and ", but not other slashes. I always thought it was magic_gpc_quotes, but that seems to have nothing to do with it. So we just need to change the BOLTstrip slashes function to handle this properly. And at just the right places. I suspect this discovery will actually enable us to simplify lot's of things in the code... So far I have things working on my system beautifully--but the display gets mucked here and there for some markup rules. I'm going through them one by one and fixing them (easy, now that I grasp what's happening) but it will take time to go through all the rules. Give me a couple days and I'll have you a new release. Cheers, Dan P.S. Also, thanks for the vote of confidence Markus & Kevin, regarding BoltWire's reliability. I think it generally does work pretty well. Riccardo's observation about the bugs and problems in BoltWire is perhaps best explained by our rather high rate of change. (Not to mention the wild kinds of permutations possible via its architecture). In other words, as Kevin just pointed out, most of our problems are those introduced when we make some improvement, and inadvertently break something else. Which usually get patched up in a couple days. I wouldn't say BoltWire is riddled with bugs, but we do follow a somewhat unconventional development process. One that lends itself to rapid change. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Markus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 11:37 am, riccardo <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:47:44AM -0800, Karin M wrote: >> > Well, thanks, but unfortunately it didn't help. >> > Actually, The slashes aren't disappearing any more but getting more >> > and more every time i click preview/save, like bunnys. they double >> > their number with every click. :( >> > do you have another ides, which could help me? >> >> Use an external editor intead? You would probably need to do this logged on >> to the server from the command line. >> >> I have been holding off implementing boltwire because of the high level of >> bugs and problems I see here on this list. > > I think 99 % of the problems and bugs only affect 1 % of the users. > Differently put there is a notable chance that everything you want to > do with BoltWire will be flawlessly working. > >> But I am hoping to have a go >> soon. And this topic reminds me that one issue I have is the availability >> of external editors. So I am opportunistically asking: >> >> Does BoltWire allow the use of an external editor of your choice? Or >> can this only be done by editing the pages directly on the filesystem? >> This is a feature I would strongly request, as I would prefer always to >> use vim. >> >> Richard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BoltWire" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
