[xwiki-devs] [1.3.1 release][urgent] Are you using \\\\ in wiki syntax ?

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> 
>> Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
>>> Hi XWikiers,
>>>
>>> An issue has been raised during the XWiki Enterprise 1.3.1 release
>>> process, http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2269 :
>>> 2 successive newlines (\\\\) are taken by the escape filter and
>>> transformed to one \ (escapeFilter)
>>>
>>> Is there anyone here using this syntax ? If not the filter will
>>> removed today and XE 1.3.1 released with this modification.
>>>
>>> ps : If you don't use it please tell it here too, it'll help us to
>>> estimate the number of people who've seen the thread.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>> Big -1
>>
>> The way Radeox works, \\\\ actually means that you use \ in the wiki
>> content.
>>
>> This means that you can't escape wiki syntax anymore, so writing \ 
>> [this
>> is not a link\] fails now.
> 
> so 1.3.1 and 1.4M1 are busted? :(
> 

Yes :(

We should have had tests for this...
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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