Prevent whitespace from being trimmed in tiddler text fields

[boris]

Joshua answered this in Misterel85’s question:

@Joshua_Fontany

Now we know that if we put the “pragma” of \whitespace notrim at the very beginning of any Tiddler’s text field, then all parsers in that tiddler will not trim whitespace when parsing text.

Try \whitespace notrim before your other wikitext.

[boris]

Oops! My example HOW TO continued, and in fact Joshua seems to have identified a bug in core:

[tw5] How can I prevent TW from trimming leading space in field transclusion?

We’ve found a bug! The wikitext parser object always tries to read Pragmas from the beginning to parse a text, and this always trims whitespace from the text (moves the parser position past any leading whitespace). The $:/core/modules/parsers/wikiparser/wikiparser.js module needs to updated. The Parser’s this.skipWhiteSpace = method needs to check the this.configTrimWhiteSpace value before moving the parser position, or reset the parser position if no pragmas are read, etc. This type of chan…