[dokuwiki] Re: huge attic
- From: Redeeman <redeeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:23:53 +0100
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 22:22 +0100, Christoph Schindler wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:00:28PM +0100, Redeeman wrote:
> > i apologize for this perhaps singleminded view, but i dont really see
> > the problem, i mean, preview is there, it allows you to see, without
>
> It allows you, but it doesn't force you to use it. That's the point. As
> a rule, users will chose the most annoying and backwards way to use a
> tool they can find.
>
> > changing, it is so easy simply to open a text editor local to do changes
> > in, then paste it into, and then if you need to merge several pages, you
> > simply have many tabs open in your browser..
>
> That's how you do it, that's how I do it, that's certainly not how
> somebodies boss does it...
>
> Plus: even I myself would rather have all I need right there in my
> browser window.
>
> > IMHO dokuwiki shouldnt be bloated away with these kinds of things,
> > since what it has cuts it, unless you use it "wrong"
>
> There are other points to bring up against this feature:
>
> For example: what if I intentionally made several consecutive edits to a
> page, to better document that there are several distinct, independent
> changes to the content?
>
> At least those edits shouldn't be joined when I set different summaries
> for them.
>
> Force the user to either mark a change as minor or enter a summary, as
> well as make a preview mandatory before you can save a page (with a
> config option to disable this) and this feature doesn't sound at all
> like bloat, but like a good way to keep the wiki more tidy.
i do this sometimes..
recently i edited my openldap howto, changing more than one place, and
to be sure i had the revisions to the seperate parts of the page, i
saved a total of 4 times. because i changed 4 sections of the page
>
> greetings!hop
>
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