Preserve whitespace in output shortcode #2760
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The
{{< output >}}
shortcode currently doesn't preserve whitespace, and also causes line-breaks when text wraps, which can end up with some poor formatting for commands that print tables, like netstat:This update will preserve the whitespace:
This shortcode is being used a lot by @mactsouk in contributed guides (as it should be 👍), so this will help in reviewing those contributions. This has also come up in the past; my hack used to be to put the output into a normal tab-indented code block, and now we won't have to do that.