I've gotten frustrated with the "Code Wrapping Off" checkbox in my user settings (too many people posting REALLY long lines) so I decided to start using the "Code Prefix" option to make it obvious when lines wrap.

The basic usage is straight forward, the example of "&001;:&nbsp;" works fine, but I wanted it to stand out a little more, so I tried changing it to "<font color="red">&001;:</font>&nbsp"

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work ... when I view source on a page with code, the first line renders as "<font&nbsp;color="red">001:</font>&nbsp;" (ie: something is converting the " " i put inside the font tag into "&nbsp;")

Is this is bug (or possibly a feature gone bad) in the user settings code? Is there a way arround it?

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Re: Spaces in " Code Prefix" ?
by hossman (Prior) on May 25, 2003 at 05:55 UTC

    On a related note, it occurs to me that a really great additional user setting would be a "Wrap Prefix", which would be prepended to the wrapped portions of long lines (or just after the soft hyphen for users of "Auto-Wrap"

    For example, if I have my Code Prefix set to "#&001;:&nbsp;" and my Code Wrap Length set to "10" then 2 long lines consisting of a-z and A-Z looks like this (at least it does on a scratch pad)... 

    #001: abcdefghij
+klmnopqrs
+tuvwxyz
#002: ABCDEFGHIJ
+KLMNOPQRS
+TUVWXYZ

    But if there was a "Wrap Prefix" option, i could set it to something like "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;:&nbsp;" and it would render as... 

    #001: abcdefghij
    : klmnopqrst
    : uvwxyz
#002: ABCDEFGHIJ
    : KLMNOPQRST
    : UVWXYZ
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Re: Spaces in " Code Prefix" ?
by theorbtwo (Prior) on May 25, 2003 at 17:18 UTC

    The only thing I can see in the code that would be causing the behavior you're noting is s/  / &nbsp;/g, which I added so that if you had a prefix of (say) "Foo:", and the line starts with a space, you don't get a double-space at the beginning of the line, which would be quashed down to a single space.

    However, I don't see where that'd be causing the problem you're seeing -- it should only hit on double-space, whereas you've got a single space.

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      No, the code you added was this: 

         # Prevent trailing spaces from quashing initial spaces in code:
   $prefix =~ s/ /&nbsp;/g;

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      Update:: Thanks for the new patch. It has been applied. The problem should be fixed now.

                      - tye
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Re: Spaces in " Code Prefix" ?
by hossman (Prior) on May 25, 2003 at 05:44 UTC
    Addendum:

    The problem appears to only occur when rendering CODE on some pages (ie: SOPW) but not others (ie: Scratch pads)

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