Hi. I'm Garrett Albright, the developer of the Pathologic module. If you use or have used Pathologic on your sites, I'd like some feedback on a direction I plan to take with the project. Please read on and respond.

Pathologic is an input filter. Currently, it's configured using the standard way for input filters; using a form on the text format administration page. This allows filters to have different configuration settings per format, which is great for things like the HTML tag filter, which allows some formats to be more restrictive with the tags it permits than others.

However, it doesn't seem to me like Pathologic would really need to be configured that way; that is, Pathologic's points of configuration are more likely to be dependent only on the site it's running on, not the text format in use. I assume that most sites that use multiple text formats with Pathologic are having to configure all of the formats the exact same way. So I've come to the conclusion that it makes more sense to just have a single Pathologic configuration form and settings for a site, rather than have these things be per format as they are now. This can reduce a lot of confusion, particularly with sites that have many text formats or with admins that aren't very familiar with how text formats work and are configured. I've built a 7.x-3.x branch of Pathologic today which works this way, and everything seems to be working correctly.

However, I'm wanting to hear from current users of Pathologic as to what they think about this change. I especially want to hear from you if you are using Pathologic and you do knowingly have a different configuration for Pathologic per text format. Why is this so? Would my proposal to have site-wide configuration for Pathologic cause problems for you?

Please leave your response in a comment on this thread, or ping me on IRC (user name "Albright") or on Twitter. Thanks for your feedback!