[pmwiki-users] line spacing patch

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:05:55AM -0500, Russ Fink wrote:
> >From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>
> >And I'm guessing there's some reason you don't want to just do:
> >
> >    * here is a spaced bullet
> >
> >    * another spaced bullet
> >
> >    * ..etc..
> 
> Well, you called me out and now I'm feeling all stupid :-)  It comes of 
> using an older version of [another wiki] that treats spaces between items 
> as block separators.  This doesn't much matter for bullets specifically, 
> but for numbered lists it will restart the numbering each time.  PmWiki 
> doesn't do this, btw.  So once I got used to never space-separating a # 
> list, it naturally flowed to not think to space * lists either.  

This is one of the big reasons why PmWiki has never treated blank
lines as block separators -- they're more naturally used for line
spacing.  :-)  PmWiki basically considers a block to continue until
some form of "incompatible" block is encountered.

Pm