SID-01524: CommentPlugin Enhancement: disable Wiki syntax

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	5.10.1
Category:	CategoryMissingFunctionality	Server OS:	CentOS 6.3 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64	Last update:	13 years ago

Hi,

It would be great if one could disable Wiki syntax, variables and execution of commands (e.g. SET) by specifying an additional parameter for the COMMENT plugin.

This switch should then be used throughout the support web of TWiki.

As an example: in SID-01523 I pasted some "Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" commands from one of my pages. Now it's impossible to add comments or edit the page

Thanks,

Thomas

Btw: Can some helpful soul with admin rights fix the page?

-- ThomasGutzmann - 2012-08-29

Discussion and Answer

Yes, some more control over formatting behavior would be nice to have with the CommentPlugin. You can always define a custom comment plugin output template to wrap the comment in <verbatim>...</verbatim> tags if you want to have verbatim output.

However, access control settings are checked before & outside of the rendering process, so they even work within verbatim tags.

A general protection would be useful to have to prevent a person from locking oneself out. That requires a feature proposal and a committed developer.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-08-29

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