02-06-2002 20:55									#1
	Q/FEAT. REQ: insertion point insertions Increase Your PM Length

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...

	02-06-2002 23:35									#2
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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).

	03-06-2002 00:57									#3
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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)

	03-06-2002 03:52									#4
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quote: 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)

	03-06-2002 16:36									#5
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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?

	04-06-2002 00:03									#6
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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.

	04-06-2002 01:02									#7
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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... ?

	04-06-2002 01:03									#8
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quote: Im an example quote. quote: This is the second quote. quote: This is a third quote... don't want too many of these. Now back to the original quote again.

	04-06-2002 01:50									#9
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An Apolyton Avalanche. The mind boggles.

But I agree. Nested quotes - up to say three levels would be nice.

	04-06-2002 03:15									#10
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quote: 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.