Re: New Feature in zenmap interface - Script Selection

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 06:57:35PM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> On 07/27/2010 09:49 PM, kirubakaran S wrote:
> > ** You can also notice that when you scroll through the Script names, Script
> > Information
> > like Description and categories, Script arguments alongwith values are
> > displayed in separate
> > boxes.
>
> I have one comment on the Description box: the text tends to look rather goofy
> because the script's description has manual line breaks in it and the editor
> window wraps lines as well (it always pops up as a small window for me so it
> does it often).
>
> Maybe whitespace like spaces, tabs and single newlines can be stripped down to
> single spaces so it all gets wrapped equally?  Double newlines can remain for
> paragraph separation.  This is just a simple example of what I mean, I'm sure
> a better replacement set can be thought of which handles this nicely.

Thank you for testing, Kris. I agree, we should collapse single newlines
into spaces. I noticed that <code></code> tags are not recognized
either, and * lists show up verbatim, though they look tolerable.
Kirubakaran already has a todo note to make the NSEDoc link clickable. I
think all these can be a part of a larger formatting task.

David Fifield
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