Suggestion: convert plain text to HTML / HTML to plain text in issue tracking

[jacob@…]

A quick suggestion, I think it would be useful to convert the plain text contained in form fields to HTML when submitting / updating a trac ticket. For example, a comment entry field for a trac ticket may contain this text:

"This is my

trac ticket"

When this is displayed in the ticket summary, it will be displayed as

"This is mytrac ticket".

I suggest converting the CRLF plain text characters to html line breaks when displaying ticket summarys to make it easier to text to be read. A simple replace string method call to search for all CRLF characters with html line breaks would be all that is required when displaying the summary.

Thanks,

Jacob.

[Matthew Good]

This is intentional since some text may contain linefeeds to wrap a line, but still continue the paragraph. Use a blank line to separate paragraphs (or use the [[BR]] macro if you really need a forced break). See WikiFormatting#Paragraphs for more information.

[jacob@…]

I was using blank lines to separate paragraphs. To get the blank lines to show up in the ticket summary I had to use HTML line breaks. I think the problem may lie in custom ticket fields not accepting WikiFormatting?

[Matthew Good]

Actually there is a standard ticket "summary" field which is the title of the ticket, so calling your custom field "summary" is confusing. Support for Wiki syntax in custom fields is requested in ticket #1392.

[anonymous]

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[ebray]

Stop that.