Why do we do this? Why not put verbatim tags around the topic and process it as normal?

I tried this (trivial changes, mainly deletions, in UI/View.pm) and it works very nicely, thank you! Note that one possible negative may be to do with select-all of the text.

I'd love to share it and show everyone, but our DEVELOP branch isn't there yet.

• The textbox is unbeaten when it comes to copying text. This is awful with browser text. But I wouldn't mind to have both a verbatim text and a textbox (perhaps with a javascript/css toggle). -- ArthurClemens - 01 Oct 2004

One question is why is there a hack in there for skins with names starting with text? presumably this is so you can ?skin=text&raw=on - but what is this meant to do (I can't find any documentation, and when I try it it doesn't do anything particularly useful)

-- CrawfordCurrie - 01 Oct 2004

With your suggestion as default, I wouldn't mind both but I concur with the sentiment that select-all would be made awkward with only your default.

Should we collect two desire scales, one for each and see how they stack up against each other?

-- MartinCleaver - 01 Oct 2004

Atcherly, I found a wee fragment of Javascript makes selectall trivial as well.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 01 Oct 2004

Crawford, text skin was for UsingTopicToDefineCSS

-- SamHasler - 02 Oct 2004

Do you mean a text view like this: https://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WhyShowRawInATextBox?skin=text&contenttype=text/plain&raw=on

Or like this with meta data? https://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WhyShowRawInATextBox?skin=text&contenttype=text/plain&raw=debug

The thing about text boxes I like is that text wrapps around nicely, and as Arthur stated you can do a Ctrl-A select.

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Oct 2004

Yes, that explains text skin now. I couldn't get it to do anything useful, but that'll be because I wasn't passing contenttype. I'll update the comment in the code so we don't have this conversation again.

Aye, the wrapping I hadn't thought of. That seems to be the only real reason. Though I still don't see why this can't simply be done with a skin. At the moment the only way to insert the topic text into the template is using %!TEXT%. If we had %!URLENCODEDTEXT% as well.... we wouldn't need raw=on.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 05 Oct 2004