From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@...>
Date: 2005-02-04T06:52:15+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth 3.0.2 -- Please, oh please, let this be the one

why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Thomas Counsell wrote:
>
>> I've been wondering whether RedCloth is being stretched in too many 
>> directions?
>>
>> On the one hand the use of gsubs! and big old regexps makes Redcloth 
>> very powerful and great for clever textile commands for writing 
>> beautiful books like _why's, but on the other they are really hard to 
>> get right for the 'big pages, but mostly trivial markup' of wikis.
>
>
> Yeah, totally.  But I think I just need more tests.
>
> In the examples given by Alexey, RedCloth is given IRC logs.

Just one of them - and that one doesn't work with RedCloth 2.0.11, either.

As for the rest of them, I looked at all those pages - and it's a simple 
bug:

irb(main):005:0> r = RedCloth.new("\n")
=> "\n"
irb(main):006:0> r.to_html
RegexpError: too big quantifier in {,}: /^ {32767}\S/
        from ./redcloth.rb:937:in `flush_left'
        from ./redcloth.rb:932:in `clean_white_space'
        from ./redcloth.rb:270:in `to_html'
        from (irb):6
irb(main):007:0>

-- 
Best regards,

Alexey Verkhovsky

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