Re^9: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)

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what's the expected difference

The user doesn't have to type the <pre> </pre> tags? :-)

But I think the idea is that if the user selects "plain text" posting mode, then we automatically apply certain transformations for nicety, such as autolinkifying URLs.

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re^10: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others) by LanX (Saint) on Feb 09, 2020 at 00:48 UTC
Well I remember loads of polemics because of pre-tags, don't see how this would be easier if it's an official feature. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]
Re^11: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others) by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 10, 2020 at 16:00 UTC
Well the end product would not look the same as using `<pre>` tags. The latter always* uses fixed-width font, and doesn't word break*, etc. My thought is that plain text would differ from `<pre>` text on those points and possibly others.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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