Just a reminder for myself for a generic string replacement plugin ...

Rationale: put formatting rules in an editable topic (let call it WebPatterns? and TWikiPatterns? )

Implementation:

• at plugin initialization:
  • collect all patterns from the topics (first TWikiPatterns? , then WebPatterns? )
  • avoid overriding patterns ( a' la FINALPREFERENCES )
  • compile them as pattern variables
  • if needed, for the efficiency-concerned, compile at runtime a subroutine that does all replacements
• Instantiate a Safe container (see the Safe CPAN module) enabling some TWiki functions and vars:
  • &internalLink(), %handleIncludeFile() ...
  • $web, $topic, $username ...
• in the outsidePreHandler apply (eval) the replacements inside the Safe container

Desirable side effects:

• if the pattern specification is verbose enough we obtain automagically its documentation

Examples:

• Double underscore -> bold italic
  • Pattern BoldItalicPattern? = /(\s|^)__(.*)__([\s\.\,\?\!]|$)/$1$2$3/go
• Old syntax of INCLUDE tag:
  • Pattern OldIncludePattern? = /%INCLUDE:"([^%\"]*?)"%/&handleIncludeFile( $1, $topic, $web, $user )/geo

• Set FINALPATTERNS = BoldItalicPattern? , OldIncludePattern?

PS: I have used WikiNames? for patterns so that we can document their syntax and examples

-- AndreaSterbini - 20 Feb 2001

I'm almost done with a dumb version of the above idea, you can just define patterns with the syntax

• Replace <pattern> with <replacement>

Where:

• the pattern is a normal regexp
• the replacement is just a string where the symbols $1 .. $9 are replaced with the corresponding matching parts in the pattern.

-- AndreaSterbini - 21 Mar 2001

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moved here from elsewhere by MattWilkie on 07 June 2004:

[...] will allow a corporation to enforce language censorship rules on a TWiki server. You could also, in theory, use it to squash those people that have a fondness for using stupid buzzwords It will convert these words into "garbage" characters (I might add an "image" option at a later date, to give it some colorful coolness).

Syntax Rules

• No tags

GenericReplacerPluginDev Settings

• List of bad words
  • Set BADWORDS = synergy, utilization, harmonize

-- DavidWeller - 16 Dec 2001

in the meantime you could just use SmiliesPlugin to obtain almost the same goal

-- AndreaSterbini - 18 Dec 2001

Can we do something like this?

:userlist_start(style=tablestyle3)
userinfo(user1, address, phone_no)
userinfo(user2, address, phone_no)
:userlist_stop

i.e. much cleaner way to specify tables etc. and manage its style from one single location (i.e. where pattern is defined).

In essence, a mechanism that would allow us to use arguments to be inserted in a template. This means, the pattern replacement text should be a block of multiple lines. Is this useful?

-- VinodKulkarni - 08 Jun 2004