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Is there not precedent for handling that correctly in a plain text field?

• falcolas 10y ago
  Which, in the case of HN and other pages, can either break the formatting of the entire page by pushing the right margin beyond the window, or artificially constrained windows which you need to scroll sideways on. Text layout is a hard problem. It's why TEX (and its derivatives) is still so damned useful (and complicated).
  • chris_7 10y ago
    It's really not that hard in this case. Don't wrap lines with a four-space prefix (or whatever format is decided), wrap lines without one. Allow users to disable the wrapping if they prefer wrapped code. The prefix can be stripped at display time if you wish, so that code is left-aligned - actually, since the formatting isn't encoded in the log, only the semantics, users can configure the display as they please. Possible handle lines beginning with - as lists and indent them correctly. If a message somehow breaks the format, do not accept it. This isn't TeX-level complexity.