On Sunday 20 December 2009 01:06, Clayton wrote: > On 12/19/2009 09:40 PM, Nino Novak wrote: > > I just noticed a strange Rich Editor phenomenon: A page edited > > using RE was completely rearranged in a way so that the diff > > function seemed unable to detect the real changes and therefore > > showed massive page changes instead. > > > > For me this makes the Rich Editor completely unusable as diff > > comparison is one of the most important wiki functions to me. > > > > I did not investigate the exact cause of the irritations as they > > did not appear obvious to me. Maybe I'm overseeing something > > simple? Is it just the whitespace changes that irritate the diff > > function? > > > > The test page I used for testing is > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Nnino/Testpage/RichEd > >itor1 (which is just a 1:1 copy of > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DE/Neue_Funktionen_in_Open > >Office.org_3.2 where I noticed the changes after a RE edit by User > > Floeff, see this diff: > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=DE%2FNeue_Fun > >ktionen_in_OpenOffice.org_3.2&diff=152776&oldid=152772 > > > > What do you think? > > Basically the Rich Editor rearranges some of the Wiki markup - much > like say.. Seamonkey or Kompozer HTML editors do when you open an > existing HTML page and edit/save. The RE does a kind of tidy or > pretty print of the content... you will especially see changes > anywhere there are tables, and where Wiki markup doesn't follow some > accepted practices (eg syntax for Categories will be automatically > moved to the bottom of a Wiki page)
For me in this case unwanted code beautifying is not acceptable as it breaks diff functionality. Maybe we could tweak the RE to not behave contraproductive? But in the meantime I suggest to switch it off. Nino --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
