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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

A text file in zim should always properly end with a newline.

I find it very hard to help you in a meaningful way since you try to do
stuff zim is not meant for. Without understanding why I can't think of the
right solution.

If you really think zim is the right tool for what you want I come back to
the question why you don't want the formatting. You say you have a strong
need to store plain text, but what is wrong with the formatting zim is
doing in this case. What _kind_ of text do you try to store?

Regards,

Jaap


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:38 PM, cmpone <cmpone@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Japp,
>
> not sure about this. I like zim for its speed and the git integration,
> also the search abilities are very nice.
> I used KeepNote before ... but that just doesn't work out with all the DB
> transactions in the backend, when things get bigger.
>
> I had the idea to put the ''' verbatim ''' brackets in the "Default.txt"
> template.
> This works so far, all but the last line of the every Default page no is
> verbatim.
> Unfortunately the courser is getting set to the last line :-(
>
> So I had the idea to remove the last line-break from the Default.txt with
> an hexeditor ...
>
> cat Default.txt
> '''
> ''
> xxd Default.txt
> 0000000: 2727 270a 2727 27                        '''.'''
>
> Now zim crashes all the time and can't save pages... Guess python
> readfile() return a None Object. (Attachment)
>
> Thanks for any feedback
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
> On 14/10/15 20:24, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
>
> Sorry, but if you want all text verbatim by default and no formatting,
> maybe you are looking at the wrong application. Zim is specifically
> targetting formatted text.
>
> Not saying you can not hack it to make it do that, but not a use case I
> think I will support by default.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, cmpone <cmpone@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Jaap for the hint,
>>
>> still it is not optimal yet.
>>
>> When I mark text blocks and format them to verbatim they don't get
>> properly transformed (see pictures in attachment).
>> Is it possible to create all TextView's as Verbatim by default?
>>
>> I tried to temper the styles.xml:
>>
>> [TextView]
>> indent=30
>> tabs=None
>> linespacing=3
>> font=Sans 14
>> wrap-mode=GTK_WRAP_NONE   <-----
>> family=monospace                    <-----
>>
>> But it has no effect.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14/10/15 14:47, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
>>
>> Sorry to be bold, but I think you are asking the wrong question.
>>
>> Your question should be how to store verbatim text, like code, without
>> any wiki formatting done ?
>>
>> The answer is
>> 1/ Use the "verbatim" formatting style
>> 2/ Use the plugin for embedding blocks of code
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jaap
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:23 PM, cmpone < <cmpone@xxxxxx>cmpone@xxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Any updates on this?
>>>
>>> I looked at the pageview.py in GUI and spotted this part:
>>>
>>> autoformat_bullets = {
>>>     '*': BULLET,
>>>     '[]': UNCHECKED_BOX,
>>>     '[*]': CHECKED_BOX,
>>>     '[x]': XCHECKED_BOX,
>>>     '()': UNCHECKED_BOX,
>>>     '(*)': CHECKED_BOX,
>>>     '(x)': XCHECKED_BOX,
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried to change it but I couldn't disable the described behaviour (see
>>> below).
>>> Any ideas where to look? I try to disable the "wiki-syntax" - at least
>>> for checkboxes.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On 10/10/15 20:53, cmpone wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently discovered this great tool.
>>> Thank you for the effort.
>>>
>>> *TLDR:* *How can I disable all styles i.e. Check-boxes from GUI*. And
>>> leave only Links and H1, H2,.. , highlighting.
>>>
>>> In my use case there is strong need to store plain text data in somewhat
>>> hierarchical order.
>>> I find this difficult as the wiki-syntax replaces my "code".
>>> After pasting
>>> [*] code
>>> [ ] code
>>>     [*] code
>>>     [x] more-code
>>>
>>> I noticed that I can copy the source from the text files as a
>>> workaround. But this is not so handy.
>>> May be there is a way to change the styles in the "style.conf"? I check
>>> the FAQ and the manual and didn't find something like this.
>>>
>>> I know that syntax is one of the main features but for my special use
>>> case it is just too much.
>>> In case that there is no such option could you hint me which part of the
>>> source code need's to be patched? I am willing to patch it.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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