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Different55

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Re: WYSIWYG

Implementing. It's just something that looks very simple on the face of it then it rapidly gets a bit complex. I'd rather add something like markdown that isn't markdown. Like **bold** and __underlined__. Except with /italic/ for italics instead of both _italic_ and *italic*. And none of that crap where single new lines become spaces, and two new lines make a paragraph break or two spaces and THEN a new line if you really want a new line." Then again /slashes/ for italics could get funny when you're trying to post a file name or path that isn't a URL.

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Tomahawk

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Re: WYSIWYG

I’d much rather have the live preview that mikelol described, in a separate box under the editor.

Clicking Preview (and then being unable to quote posts) is a little tedious, especially on mobile since I do a lot of proofreading and small edits before posting.

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Re: WYSIWYG

Like this.

One question about this video:
If you want to remove the tag, how do you do it?

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Re: WYSIWYG

[...]
One question about this video:
If you want to remove the tag, how do you do it?

The traditional implementation is to have the formatting button be a toggle, so to unbold text you'd have to highlight it and click the bold button again.

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Re: WYSIWYG

I have nightmares about WYSIWYG editors so unless basically the entire site tells me to do it I'm probably not going to.

that is exactly what i need and want in my topic (ok mine is useless now you can mvoe it or lock it its upt to you) it makes managing bigger topics liek ghrapics dumps easier to manage and edit

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Latif

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Re: WYSIWYG

It's not that necessary but it could be useful sometimes if you're using a lot of BBCode tags, especially in long posts. A preview that updates whenever I write should be fine too. I hate clicking preview every time to check if I haven't done any mistakes.

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Re: WYSIWYG

I think the best (read: easiest) implementation of this is to have some sort of live preview.

For longer posts you're probably better off using an actual editor. Emacs has multiple modes for editing bbcode (albeit without a preview, though I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to make some faces for the limited set of formatting possible in bbcode). I'm sure bbcode packages exist for other, lesser editors. If you're wondering: yes, this entire post was an excuse to shill Emacs.

Interestingly, there's a bbcode exporter for Org. Seeing as Org is basically the greatest tool to ever exist (and has packages for live preview, though I can't confirm this is still the recommended way to live-preview org files), this is probably the best you're going to get.

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Re: WYSIWYG

i foudn this topic when looking for another and i really think this is usefull so diff coudl youadd WYSIWYG

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Raphe9000

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Re: WYSIWYG

i foudn this topic when looking for another and i really think this is usefull so diff coudl youadd WYSIWYG

I have nightmares about WYSIWYG editors so unless basically the entire site tells me to do it I'm probably not going to.

No one even needs this, and if it's such a hassle to implement, I don't want it for Diff's sake.

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Re: WYSIWYG

sometime i make a post an BBC code is worng and i need 1 **** hour to see what tf the **** mistake is BBC errors are told so wrongly here in maf 35 wjen i made my reads list fi frgot 1 ] after a color tag so i worte something liek

[color=12fb45]welcome[/color] [color=#f12345hi[/color]

and had many colors in that post the error said color was opened wihtint itself this is not allowed i solid needed 5-10 misn to find out i was missing 1 **** ]! +its looksway nicer for logn posst liek ghrapic topics with many spoilers indie spoilers

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Raphe9000

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Re: WYSIWYG

BBC code

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sometime i make a post an BBC code is worng and i need 1 **** hour to see what tf the **** mistake is BBC errors are told so wrongly here in maf 35 wjen i made my reads list fi frgot 1 ] after a color tag so i worte something liek

That's just because you don't understand basic concepts like ctrl+f. It would be quite easy to see anyway if you just... well... look. An hour is quite the exaggeration. Well either that or you should see a doctor.

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Re: WYSIWYG

I just use the preview button.

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Re: WYSIWYG

the errors of BBC code are given worngly by most errors so yeha its hard to see when you look for an wrong error

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Raphe9000

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Re: WYSIWYG

BBC code

Peace, I know you're young and don't know what you're saying, but PLEASE just call it BBCode, BB Code, or BB-Code. It is not BBC code.

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Re: WYSIWYG

its writen as BBCode so yeah you coudld thing it means BBC code but does that really matter?

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Raphe9000

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Re: WYSIWYG

I'll tell you when you're older.

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Re: WYSIWYG

how odl should i be im not young anymore

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