Terminal formatting.
Bug #367758 reported by
dotancohen
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Zim |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In light of bug #367755 (No click "^$ " characters option) I think that an alternative solution to the situation in which a user may want to show terminal commands while allowing them to be freely copied without the terminal interface characters (specifically the $ character that begins each line) would be to have a formating option that looks like a terminal with the $ character. Zim could even autoformat this when it detects a line that begins with a $ character, much in the same way that [] characters are detected as checkmarks. Lines formatted in this way would be in a monospace white font on a black background, with the $ character at the beginning of each line.
Revision history for this message
| Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in zim: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
Revision history for this message
| Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in zim: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Won't Fix |
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To me this is to specialized to build it in as a standard formatting, but it could be added as a plugin. Probably that should work by having an embedded textview or an embedded gtk-sourceview with shell script specific behavior.
This looks to me like an extension for the syntax highlighting request in bug #275714 and could be build on top of an implementation of that.
Of course it can be hacked in more directly without doing the embedded view. I will try to make the auto-formatting mechanism accessible to plugins in the python tree.