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    Q/FEAT. REQ: insertion point insertions

    I find myself replying to post quite often, using the quote feature to get text I'm replying to pre-pasted in the edit widget. However, there are some problems associated with this:

    1) If you want to use the text style inidcators (bold. italics aso) it invariable pastes the styled text at the very end of the text widget, not at the current insertion point. This goes for smilies as well, of course.

    It would be very nice if these could happen at the current insertion point instead of at the end of the text. Any chance of that happening?

    2) When you reply to several blocks of quoted text you end up with typing a lot of QUOTE and /QUOTE (I omitted the brackets here) to separate their comments from yours. I'd be nice if you could paste thes to in from buttons just like smilies, although to be useful that'd have to happen at the current insertion point to. I've tried to get this to happen with the Close Current Tag button, but it doesn't seem to work.

    Any chance of this getting in? As is I find it easier and faster to reply to different parts of the same message in several posts, quoting the relevant bits in each...
    "The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
    "I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.
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  • #2
    I would also like the thingies to be put in at the current insertion point - it still surprises me when it doesn't.

    As for writing QUOTE lots - you can shorten it to just q and /q (in square brackets).

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    • #3
      I used to be annoyed by those things (appearing down the bottom of messages only, etc) but I almost always type everything in myself now. Most of the widely-used smileys are easy to remmeber, and quotes are very quick to type too. Not the one you use, but the quicker [q]Quote text in here.[/q] method. (brackets included)
      I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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      • #4
        It would be very nice if these could happen at the current insertion point instead of at the end of the text.
        as far as i know this can not be done with the current possibilities of javascript(that is used to insert the tag)
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        • #5
          I'm sorry to hear that. Would have been nifty if it was possible. Still, if it doesn't work then it doesn't work.

          Apolyton client, anyone?
          "The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
          "I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.

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          • #6
            Another issue is losing quotes within quotes when you quote someone. Sounds confusing...but do you understand me. Seems like this would be fixable. Not a current insertion issue.

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            • #7
              Just change all the [quote] and [/quote] tags to read [q] and [/q] instead. Easy

              It would be good if the insertion script used the [q] tags however, so that everyone's quotes would work out properly... although on second though that might mean that quotes would keep piling up... ?
              I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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              • #8
                Im an example quote.
                This is the second quote.
                This is a third quote... don't want too many of these.

                Now back to the original quote again.
                I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                • #9
                  An Apolyton Avalanche. The mind boggles.

                  But I agree. Nested quotes - up to say three levels would be nice.
                  "The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
                  "I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Skanky Burns
                    Just change all the [quote] and
                    tags to read [q] and [/q] instead. Easy

                    It would be good if the insertion script used the [q] tags however, so that everyone's quotes would work out properly... although on second though that might mean that quotes would keep piling up... ? [/QUOTE]

                    Duh! I want to get the nested quotes automatically.

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