[mythtv-users] How do I insert a linefeed in a Custom Record Rule?

[John P Poet]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have had enough of living with rules all on one line and completely
> invisible unless I scroll to the left and have it all magically appear
> off the left side of the screen.  Yes, this may have been fixed since
> my V0.23 system got set up, but I'm having trouble getting upgraded to
> V0.25 over the past six weeks, so I want to fix this _now_. ;-)
>
> Some of the rules I made in the past magically (meaning I have no clue
> how I did it) include line breaks between clauses that had to have
> come from separate sample clauses.  I have tried to do this again and
> had no luck.  I tried turning on and off the line-edit keyboard option
> (I have a keyboard on the BE), and I tried finding a way to paste text
> of any kind into the rule definition text box, but nothing seems to
> work.
>
> Can anyone tell me:
> A) Has this been fixed in a future (say V0.25+) release?
>


Yes.  This was fixed in 8f757eeaf which was committed on 2-Oct-2011 and is
available in fixes/0.25.  Even with the code fix, it is up to the theme to
take advantage of multi-line edits.



> B) There _is_ a way to consistently do this in V0.23, and if so, what
> the method is?
>


Not that I am aware of, but it has been a VERY long time since I used a
version that old.  One *dangerous* option, would be to edit the mythconverg
database directly in mysql.


Thanks _very_ much for helping me with this irritating little issue.
>


There have been many significant improvements to the UI since 0.23.  If you
can manage it, I would suggest migrating to 0.27.


John
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