[twill] how do you fill text box in a form so that it returns new line?

[Titus Brown]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:50:02PM +0000, Norman Khine wrote:
-> hello,
-> i have form:
-> Form name=addquesansform
-> ## __Name__________________ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
->    type                     select    (None)       [''] of ['', 'MCQ',
-> 'MAQ']
->    code                     text      (None)       
->    title                    textarea  (None)      
-> 
->    options                  textarea  (None)      
-> 
->    correct_options          text      (None)       
->    answer                   textarea  (None)      
-> 
-> 1                           submit    (None)       Add
-> 
->  
-> and want to add a new line to the text box 'options' , so that the text
-> is listed one after the other.
-> 
-> >> fv addquesansform  options  'lin1 line2 .... line n'
-> 
->  so that on the form it is:
-> 
-> line1
-> line2
-> ...
-> line n

Hi, Norman,

surprisingly, there's no way to do this at the moment without resorting
to straight Python.  How does

	fv <form> <field> "line1\nline2\nline3\n"

strike you as a solution?

cheers,
--titus