i've wondered this for a while

i only hit the button for the faces

but i'll type [b] if i'm making something bold

1/24/2009 3:11:04 PM

aich tee emm ell

1/24/2009 3:11:42 PM

fuckin' premies

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1/24/2009 3:12:16 PM

image or quote sometimes ill hit the button and a few faces. other than that i type

1/24/2009 3:12:33 PM

typing is easier. though the canned chit chat response to this should be "i just live."

1/24/2009 3:13:22 PM

most of the times i'll click the button to open and type it to close so i dont have to take my hand back to the mouse

idk why

1/24/2009 3:14:02 PM

i usually use html

1/24/2009 3:15:21 PM

type usually, because it inserts it at the end and sometimes i decide to go back.

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1/24/2009 3:17:14 PM

generally type.

1/24/2009 4:27:55 PM

fuck that







...

1/24/2009 4:28:51 PM

I type it.

But when I want to do tons of kissey faces I click the bean

1/24/2009 4:29:10 PM

type 90% of the time.

and it is fucked up in here (pressing a button puts the code at the end, not where the cursor is), so i don't bother.

1/24/2009 4:35:40 PM

macros ftw -- http://www.smileonmymac.com/TextExpander/index.html

i type bbold and it prints out the [b ] [/b ] and puts the cursor right in the middle so i can type

same with iimg, except it does the whole img src jazz and pastes the image link from the clipboard

1/24/2009 4:38:05 PM

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"type usually, because it inserts it at the end"

Yeah, that shouldn't be.
Javascript is perfectly capable of keeping track of the cursor (caret). The tags should be entered where the caret is at the moment the button is pressed. Also, javascript could add both tags to selected text by pushing the button. (Just high-light the text you want bold, click the 'B' button, then boom -- opening and closing bold tags surround the text that was highlighted.)

Not hard, really. Is there a TWW suggestions box?

1/24/2009 4:45:50 PM

Greasemonkey plugin for Firefox + InsertAtCursor script ftw

1/24/2009 4:49:38 PM

type ze code.

1/24/2009 4:50:30 PM

lol wut

1/24/2009 5:00:57 PM

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"macros..."

Quote :

"plugin"

How embarrassing for TWW owner(s) that their lousy script compels users to employ 3rd-party scripts.

1/24/2009 5:05:04 PM

yeah, you go to a real message board for long enough and you get used to little things

like highlighting a block of text and then clicking the italics button and the section you've had highlighted is automatically bookended with the code

of course, other than the name button, the crazy code hasn't really changed since before 2003, right?

[Edited on January 25, 2009 at 5:07 AM. Reason : (i'm speaking only of the code for the post reply page, natch)]

1/25/2009 5:07:17 AM

i always type the code tags by hand.

because i, too, hate the buttons "Feature" of inserting at end of text ( )

only problem is i often fuck up the code block somehow, typically forgetting a closing bracket or putting the wrong bracket, so it screws it up and i have to edit my post just for something stupid like that.

1/25/2009 5:14:12 AM

^same here, but code has always been a lot easier since I quit drinking and posting.

1/25/2009 9:58:14 AM

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"Greasemonkey plugin for Firefox + InsertAtCursor script ftw"

1/25/2009 10:06:48 AM

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"since I quit drinking and posting"

that's always a really bad combination

1/26/2009 4:01:55 PM

i type the code, then press the button

"4 8 15 16 23 42

[enter]"

1/26/2009 4:04:40 PM

i always type the code out


im a tww purist

1/26/2009 4:06:33 PM

i type it out

colon b e a t u p colon

1/26/2009 4:06:34 PM

i press the butttttttttons

1/26/2009 4:09:35 PM

mix

1/26/2009 4:13:00 PM

sometimes I type it
sometimes I press the button

1/26/2009 4:27:18 PM

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"i type it out colon b e a t u p colon"

oh i'd beatup dat colon

1/27/2009 2:55:21 AM