On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 20:18:33 +0000 Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> said:
> Hi team, > > Netstar pointed out something to me today that I had completely missed for > ages - elm_entry assumes you are typing markup. Type "a>b" and text_get > will return "a>b" - what is the reason for this? It seems completely > crazy default behaviour. > Is there any reason we can't turn this off by default but provide the > markup filter in a way where it can be switched on as needed? 1. can't change because this would break many apps that rely on it. 2. it's documented - labels and entries use textblock parts in edje. these use markup by default to be able to do styling. 3. the very first entry test shows use of markup - consider the elm tests documentation. they are intended as such. select some text in it hit "sel" that displays the text of the selection... boom. markup. 4. the fact that there is a markup to utf8 function does imply markup can be involved. 5. if you changed you'd break 11 of the current entry tests and have to change code (a very sure sign you broke a feature). 6. labels work like entries and do markup too - all the multi-line capable things in elm do this... it's a pattern. so ... not going to change. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
