Tags cannot contain newlines

[Noah Slater]

Hello,

Please see "Tags cannot contain newlines":

http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1147

I have been instructed by mtredinnick to bring the discussion here.

Can someone please justify why this wont be fixed?

Thanks,

Noah

[Adrian Holovaty]

I don't like newlines within tags purely for aesthetic reasons. A tag
is a bite-sized, atomic unit. If it's spread over multiple lines, it
turns into some strange mushy, ugly thing.

Yes, this is highly subjective. I realize that, and I shudder at the
thought of a 30-message mailing-list discussion of the aesthetics of
newlines vs. no newlines. Please accept the fact that tags cannot
contain newlines.

Adrian

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[James Bennett]

On 3/29/07, Noah Slater <nsl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been instructed by mtredinnick to bring the discussion here.
>
> Can someone please justify why this wont be fixed?

See also this thread from earlier today which covers some
technical/performance reasons:

http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_frm/thread/ac646d3ec7482bec/429120bc428ba187#429120bc428ba187

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"Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct."

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

> I don't like newlines within tags purely for aesthetic reasons. A tag
> is a bite-sized, atomic unit. If it's spread over multiple lines, it
> turns into some strange mushy, ugly thing.
>
> Yes, this is highly subjective. I realize that, and I shudder at the
> thought of a 30-message mailing-list discussion of the aesthetics of
> newlines vs. no newlines. Please accept the fact that tags cannot
> contain newlines.

No, the bikeshed should be yellow!

Jacob