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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Klaus,

To make it undo-able you should not use the page object at all. If you just
use the TextBuffer API, all changes will be undo-able.

There is a "foreach_line()" which you could use to determining what lines
you want to re-align. Just replace text with the "delete()" and
"insert_text()" methods.

Unfortunately you can not get all text, parse it, and replace at once,
because you will loose all formatting. So will need to modify your current
functions a bit to work line by line on the buffer.

Regards,

Jaap




On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Klaus-Dieter Bauer <
bauer.klaus.dieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have largely overhauled my table plugin with a new format (less boundary
> cases for better stability, cleaner functions, a bit of documentation).
>
> The problem of preserving Undo information persists.
>
>
>
> 2013/7/8 Klaus-Dieter Bauer <bauer.klaus.dieter@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have written a make-shift table plugin, that just helps managing tables
>> made from verbatim text (though images and links are possible, but
>> currently break the formatting). Basically it looks for a line starting
>> with {{| and the earliest line afterwards ending with ||} and realigns
>> table contents in between.
>>
>> However, I found this extremely difficult to do on the level of the
>> parsetree and instead extract the source code through
>> "page.dump(zim.formats.wiki)", modify the source and write it back with
>> "page.parse(...)".
>>
>> Sadly though, afterwards Undo is not possible.
>>
>> Is there some way that I can modify the contents of a page without
>> breaking Undo?
>>
>> I have attached the experimental source and a file with example tables
>> for reference. (Note: High risk of data loss, it's still pretty buggy).
>>
>> kind regards, Klaus
>>
>
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