On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 08:22:06PM +0200, Jos Groot Lipman wrote:
> I also found out about this http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/wiki_rules 
> 
> "The <verbatim> tag works like <pre> with the addition that it also disables
> all wiki and HTML markup through the matching </verbatim>."
> 
> But why this special tag? Is this not something the <pre> should do under
> all circumstances? When would you ever want wiki or HTML markup inside a
> <pre>? That contradicts the primary reason of existance for the <pre> tag.
> 
> Why not have <pre> act as <verbatim> and drop <verbatim>?

I like the way it is now. I like <pre> to be as close to the usual HTML <pre> in
a wiki context.

<verbatim> helps not having to care about square brackets, or the '<' '>' signs.
This is a big win over HTML <pre> as for pasting code that includes angle
brackets.

Regards,
Lluís.

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