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Thomas De Schampheleire

lib: fix detection of ' as issue reference

Commit 494c793cc160 changed HTML escaping to please HTML 4 email readers.
The HTML entity ''' was replaced by '''.
Unfortunately, the pound character '#' is often used to mark issue
references, like 'bug #56'. While this depends on the issue patterns
actually configured, this pattern is so common that we cannot expect users
to set their issue_pat regular expressions such that '{' is not
matched.

Instead, keep the original ''' replacement at first in method html_escape,
but introduce a final step that just replaces ''' with '''.

The order of replacement in urlify_text then changes from:
html_escape (to HTML4)
urlify_issues
to
html_escape (to HTML5)
urlify_issues
make HTML5 more like HTML4

Test coverage show the problem case being solved.

.. _customization:

=============
Customization
=============

There are several ways to customize Kallithea to your needs depending on what
you want to achieve.


HTML/JavaScript/CSS customization
---------------------------------

To customize the look-and-feel of the web interface (for example to add a
company banner or some JavaScript widget or to tweak the CSS style definitions)
you can enter HTML code (possibly with JavaScript and/or CSS) directly via the
*Admin > Settings > Global > HTML/JavaScript customization
block*.


Behavioral customization: rcextensions
--------------------------------------

Some behavioral customization can be done in Python using ``rcextensions``, a
custom Python package that can extend Kallithea functionality.

With ``rcextensions`` it's possible to add additional mappings for Whoosh
indexing and statistics, to add additional code into the push/pull/create/delete
repository hooks (for example to send signals to build bots such as Jenkins) and
even to monkey-patch certain parts of the Kallithea source code (for example
overwrite an entire function, change a global variable, ...).

To generate a skeleton extensions package, run::

    gearbox make-rcext -c my.ini

This will create an ``rcextensions`` package next to the specified ``ini`` file.
See the ``__init__.py`` file inside the generated ``rcextensions`` package
for more details.


Behavioral customization: code changes
--------------------------------------

As Kallithea is open-source software, you can make any changes you like directly
in the source code.

We encourage you to send generic improvements back to the
community so that Kallithea can become better. See :ref:`contributing` for more
details.