From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Stegemann Subject: Re: [IDEA] HTML-export literal examples to textarea Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:14:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <0F3A5DC4-D191-472D-BCA6-7978CEB308F9@uva.nl> <3440483C-0236-41B7-88B6-984D25A3EF7F@uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOs5O-0007Mm-Pb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:14:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOs5L-0007M7-U2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:14:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55620 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOs5L-0007Lu-Mi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:14:27 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54144 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOs5L-0003iD-1r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:14:27 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LOs5J-000310-9d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:14:25 +0000 Received: from london.zeitform.net ([146.140.213.100]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:14:25 +0000 Received: from ulf-news by london.zeitform.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:14:25 +0000 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Carsten, Carsten Dominik wrote: > So it remains a kind-of specialistic thing. no, I wouldn't say so. textarea seems to have become quite popular in HTML online documentation. Apart from all the copy and paste stuff, textarea can do a virtual wrap or give you a horizontal scroll bar. This is nice if you have literal text with long lines that can or should not be wrapped but should also not exceed you layout's horizontal limits. I'd guess this is the main reason, why textarea is widely used to give literal examples. Nevertheless, the textarea block is certainly just a nice-to-have and not an absolutely necessary killer-feature. Ulf