Question

I just today installed (today) TinyMCEPlugin in my Twiki 4.1.2 site. Everything works great except I noticed that when I edit a page, many lines of the page get updated with a trailing space... but not all. Seems mostly confined to bullet list items, and a few html tags here and there. I think its a bug and I'm happy to report it as one, just wanted to post a question here first in case I overlooked something. See my attached diff.

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-- BryanEllsaesser - 18 Nov 2007

Answer

Ah, you can report it as a bug, but the chances are high that I won't fix it unless the trailing space can be shown to actually break something.....

-- CrawfordCurrie - 19 Nov 2007

Well, lets say I used TinyMCE to edit something like a preferences topic, for instance. I may just edit a section header and save my changes. On save TinyMCE (or more likely WYSIWYG Plugin?) appends this trailing space throughout the doucment. If I have a variable set that references another variable:

   * Set SOMETHING = %SOMEVARIABLE%

On save the trailing space will actually be appended to the set variable. When the set variable gets expanded in use elsewhere it includes the trailing space. Now, I'm sure you could easily argue not to encourage WYSIWG users to edit content of this complex type, but I think this is a pretty easy example of how easy this trailing space can cause problems. I'll put it in as a bug and I'm happy to help test.

Somewhat off topic... I was able to get the spellchecker working with TinyMCE, but it is a pain to setup PHP. Anyone feel like porting to perl for TWiki?

-- BryanEllsaesser - 21 Nov 2007

Please file a bug report: TWikibug:WebHome

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jan 2008

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