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Pillar of the Community
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Wait, are you saying there's a way to do all the formatting without having to manually type in all the [i] and [b] and [url] and [img] tags?
Geez, kids today are so spoiled, everything has to be handed to them on a plate...
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Bedrock of the Community
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Let's go back further and post messages using IBM punch cards. Find a nearby computer center with an IBM punch machine. Build a card deck for a message post, and submit the job overnight...
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Pillar of the Community
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Spoiled kids? Geroff me lawn! Heh. I manually edit some tags anyway, to make use of the advanced parameters that aren't included in the basic default version.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Now to do a quote you only have to type the tags... Honestly... that will save some time! Thanks! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Back around '91 or so I learned to write my own HTML, because all the tags were so similar to VMS Script (am I dating myself?). These tags are no problem!
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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am I dating myself? We are all closer to dirt naps than childhood.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Oh my, thanks for the reminder.
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Pillar of the Community
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The thing that would help - and I know I could write it - would be a highlight, copy & paste that added the q tags.
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The thing that would help - and I know I could write it - would be a highlight, copy & paste that added the q tags. I use a program called QuickTextPaste to do this. Highlight, copy, [WIN][Q][Q] to paste with tags. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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one thing I noticed today as I was replying to a post and accidentally let my brain go on cruise control for the closing tag, the tags have to match. You can't do "q" and "/quote" (which is what I did) or "quote" and "/q". Gotta be quote /quote or q /q.
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Forum Dad
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Bedrock of the Community
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I use a program called QuickTextPaste to do this. Highlight, copy, [WIN][Q][Q] to paste with tags. I'm going to look into that, as I do quote a lot here and that would save even more time than the (very beneficial) q /q enhancement. Thanks for the lead, @jbuck. |
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My pleasure.  |
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Boy, I'm glad I came up with this idea for a change to make quoting easier.. |
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