Preserve linefeeds

[kseistrup]

Replace '\n' with a br/ HTML tag.

[kseistrup]

While this is currently not very useful in the web client, someone using a commandline client may be able to excert greater control over the message format.

[toyg]

This looks sensible. Paging @miguelfreitas to accept.

[kseistrup]

The patch works as such. However, I believe it exposes a fault in the way links are detected and hightlighted.

See, if I send the string "A\nB\nC\n\nX\n\nY" it is correctly showed as

A
B
C

X

Y

on the postboard. BUT if I send the string `"A\nB\nC\n\nhttp://www.google.com/\n\n:-)" I will see

A
B
C

http://www.google.com/<b/><b/>:-)

on the postboard instead of

A
B
C

http://www.google.com/

:-)

I haven't had the time to look into this.

[kseistrup]

Another things is: The "\n" thing, is it specifik to Linux? Do they use the same thing under Windows and MacOS? Or will we have to something like

  msg = msg.replace(/\r\n/g, '<br/>');
  msg = msg.replace(/\r/g, '<br/>');
  msg = msg.replace(/\n/g, '<br/>');

in order to cover all possible cases?

[miguelfreitas]

I'd rather have this as an option. I know Twitter started accepting linefeeds last year or so, but they have other means of filtering messages we don't. What if people start posting 140 line feeds in a message? the timeline won't look pretty and we won't be able to do anything about it.

IMHO this belong to config page, as much as: (1) showing messages which start with @someoneelse (2) following somebody just to process DMs, not to show on timeline, etc.

[toyg]

For the record, the actual regex to use is /(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm.

[kseistrup]

@miguelfreitas, a user posting 140 linefeeds time and again would soon see himself without any followers. Problem solved.

[miguelfreitas]

hmmm... what about a promoted message with 140 line feeds? :)

[kseistrup]

@miguelfreitas, if someone wants to waste CPU cycles on having the chance to send out a few twists with 140 linefeeds, so be it — I rarely see a promoted message (wild guess: once a week).

[rbertoche]

We could just have some hard-coded line limit, as we have for chars. Five or ten would suffice, I think
Personally I hate to write "-" or some random separator when I don't want a period. It's just me?

[miguelfreitas]

I like the idea of limiting the number of linefeeds.

[kseistrup]

Limiting the numer of linefeeds could be a good compromise.

[miguelfreitas]

obsolete