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[Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:52:53 Deryck Hodge wrote:
> Hi, Tim.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > All works well as long as there are no carriage returns.  Once you add
> > some, the rendering all goes to pot.
> >
> > I've verified this with lp:lazr-js example code for the multi-line
> > editor.
> >
> > What confuses me though is how come the bugs description works?  I can't
> > find any difference.
> 
> Take a look at the activation template string in
> lib.canonical.widgets.lazrjs.TextAreaEditorWidget.  There is a
> formatter config option that takes the XHTML and formats it nicely.
> This has to be done because the xhtml response is in <dd> tags via the
> API.  It's also not tested in the lazr-js example because it's
> dependent on our real XHR response, so it seemed silly to mock just so
> the test formatted nicely.  It's hackish, I know.  But I couldn't
> really work out a nicer way to do it.

OK, the question then becomes: how come the formatter works for bug 
descriptions, but not merge proposal commit messages?

Tim