Re: add a new rule type: single-line body?

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

Loren Wilton writes:
> > Just wondering.  would it be handy to have a new "body" type, the same as
> > "body" but matched as a single string, with all newlines converted to " "?
> > in other words, this text:
> 
> It might be beneficial to convert the newlines to spaces, but it might also 
> be beneficial to leave them there so that they can be explicitly checked for 
> as a ratware pattern.  Isn't there a regex /something that treats newlines 
> as spaces?  If so that might be the better way to do it, since the rule 
> writer can have it either way.

That's what rawbody does now, with the /s modifier.

> Would would DEFINITELY be useful would be to stop breaking body on paragraph 
> boundaries and to put it all into one string.  Or as you mention, "all" up 
> to some convenient arbitrary limit.  I don't know how many full-body hacks 
> I've had to write to get around the problems with body breaking on paragraph 
> bodies.

Uh, exactly what I was proposing...

--j.