Escape input when translating to Source

You should clarify two things:

* Do you really want to escape all user input? That would mean that formatting with wiki syntax will not work any more, i.e. if you enter **bold** this would not be bold any more, and if you enter a bullted list with asterisks, they would not be converted to bullet points any more. This would be a pretty big change that needs some discussion, and the additional RFE you mention would be a prerequisite.

* Technically, I'm not sure if the Zim/Dokuwiki syntax even allows escaping arbitrary markup, except by putting it in double or triple quote. But this also changes the rendering to monospaced which is not always what you want. This needs to be clarified first, maybe the markup syntax needs to be extended to implement this.

The second problem could be solved by switching to MarkDown syntax which already has mechanisms for escaping user input (e.g. autoescaping of & chars or by putting a backslash in front of an asterisk) (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/495898).

The first problem could be solved by making this a user setting to make everybody happy. E.g. there could be a toggle under the edit menu to enable/disable interpretation of wiki syntax. When enabled, **bold** would be interpreted as bold, when disabled, it would be escaped as \*\*bold\*\* or whatever (this is currently not working, see second problem).

Moving to incomplete, as I miss the real problem statement in this bug (if we discussed before please remind me)

Regards,

Jaap

> Do you really want to escape all user input?

Yes.

> That would mean that formatting with wiki syntax will not work any more, i.e. if you enter **bold** this would
> not be bold any more, and if you enter a bullted list with asterisks, they would not be converted to bullet points
> any more.

That seems to be a limitation of Dokuwiki. This RFE would be solved if arbitrary characters could be escaped in Dokuwiki or if a different wiki syntax which supports escaping arbitrary characters were implemented, with sufficient facility for having Zim automatically escape said characters.

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The escaping could be interesting locally only, when pasting some text that should not be interpreted. See the :set paste option in Vim. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'paste'