[geeklog-devel] Current status of using curly braces in story body?

[Dan Stoner]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:
> Dan Stoner wrote:
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>> I've been trying to use curly braces inside a story body, basically
>> wanting to show some script (bash shell expansion).
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> As soon as you want to display code, you should use the [code] or [raw] tags. Those aren't perfect either, but at least the goal is for them to make them display everything verbatim, without being interpreted.
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>> I found links to this bug:
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>> http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view.php?id=1005
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> That's the "not perfect" bit …
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>> And a few other forum posts about curly braces.
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> Depends on where they are used. Curly braces are used for variables by the template engine. So something like {word} would - when run through the template engine - be considered a variable named "word" and would be replaced with its current value. Most of the time, that value would be empty and the entire construct will simply disappear.
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> Workaround: Add spaces: { word }
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> If it's code (JavaScript, CSS, etc.) it should still work with the spaces.
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>> I thought I had curly braces working at one point (possibly with GL
>> 1.7.1) but maybe it wasn't, or maybe there was a regression in 1.8.0+.
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> There was an issue with the handling of curly braces in blocks (only there) in 1.7.0 that was fixed in 1.7.1. I don't think anything else changed recently.
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>> Can anyone shed some light on this?
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> Did that help?
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> bye, Dirk
>


Yes, that helps explain the behavior.

Unfortunately, white space is significant for my bash shell example.  :(


- Dan Stoner