angularjs newline filter with no other html

Question

I\'m trying to convert newline characters (\\n) to html br\'s.
As per this discussion in the Google Group, here\'s what I\'ve got:

Answer 1

Instead of messing with new directives, I decided to just use 2 filters:

App.filter('newlines', function () {
    return function(text) {
        return text.replace(/\n/g, '
');
    }
})
.filter('noHTML', function () {
    return function(text) {
        return text
                .replace(/&/g, '&')
                .replace(/>/g, '>')
                .replace(/

Then, in my view, I pipe one into the other: