Whitespace Prefix

Any line starting with whitespace becomes preformatted text:

 Public Class MyClass
    Public Sub New()
        DoCoolStuff()
        If IsReallyCool Then
            DoSomethingEvenMoreCool()
        End If
    End Sub
 End Class
 public class CSharpExample {
    CSharpExample() {
       int n = 5;
       object[] test = new object[n];
    }
 }

Text inside of a PRE block doesn't get hyperlinks automatically added to it.

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Non-indented preformatted text

It is difficult to cut and paste source files into Wiki and then insert 1 space before every line. The "PRE block" solves this problem. There are 2 usage scenarios: simple syntax and syntax with a key.

Simple Syntax:

{@
your text goes
here and it does not have to start with space or tab
}@

Produces:

your text goes
here and it does not have to start with space or tab

Syntax with key (if for some reason your text contains }@ at the beginning of a line)

{@UniqKey
any text
here including
}@ at line beginning
still inside pre
}@WrongKey
still inside pre
}@UniqKey

Produces:

any text
here including
}@ at line beginning
still inside pre
}@WrongKey
still inside pre

Extended Syntax

For purposes of showing large amounts of code, a lot of developers are used to seeing code presented with color syntax highlighting. To allow for this, you can use the {+ ... }+ syntax and then use the normal FlexWiki FormattingRules to apply styles. For example, this code

 {+
    %blue%public void%% Foo()
    {
        %green%// comment here%%
        %blue%string%% s;
...
    }
 }+

Would result in this output

   public void Foo()
   {
       // comment here
       string s;
       ...
   }

which will look extremely familiar to all of the Visual Studio developers out there.

Most of the normal FlexWiki processing is done on this text, it just maintains the fixed-width font and the whitespace presentation that is normally associated with the {@ ... }@ FlexWiki tag or the <pre> HTML tag. This processing includes Simple , Linking, Text size and Color, and Alternative or Textile formatting rules.

Bugs

This next long line will not show as it should in IE7. It works fine in IE6 though as the whole page will have a horizontal scrollbar. In IE7 it gives the preformatted text a scrollbar itself which makes the scrollbar take up all the room resulting in that you can't see the text there:

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You could do a small workaround where you add an empty line but this makes it look worse in IE6:

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