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Curt Palme
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I finally realized today that something could be done about my one tiny forum beef... ask Kal if it could be changed.  Man, I'm a genius! 
It's this:
When you hit 'reply' on a PM, there's no space at the top of the reply, so if the PM is short, it's easier to reply at the bottom of the message, but if it's a lengthy reply, you need to hit the 'enter' button a couple of times and place the cursor carefully to separate your return message from the original.
Any chance of inserting a couple of spaces/blank lines at the top of the PM message so it's easier to reply?
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kal
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| Link Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: My tiny forum beef |
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| Curt Palme wrote: | I finally realized today that something could be done about my one tiny forum beef... ask Kal if it could be changed. Man, I'm a genius!
It's this:
When you hit 'reply' on a PM, there's no space at the top of the reply, so if the PM is short, it's easier to reply at the bottom of the message, but if it's a lengthy reply, you need to hit the 'enter' button a couple of times and place the cursor carefully to separate your return message from the original.
Any chance of inserting a couple of spaces/blank lines at the top of the PM message so it's easier to reply? |
Not easily since the PM response section of that page is the same code that's used for responding to regular posts too. So making that change would affect PM responses and regular post responses too.
That being, said, why is this only an issue in PMs? Responding to someone's post and quoting them in threads is exactly the same.
The other issue is that when you quote someone in a thread post most people type their response BELOW the quote. Do you not do the same in PMs? Why do it differently on PMs vs. posts? I suppose some people always post above, some always below, some do it differently for PMs vs forum posts, and some just pick randomly.
Adding spaces to the top would force everyone to always post above which isn't what everyone wants to do.
Kal
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| kal wrote: | | Nashou66 wrote: | I still want to be able to link directly to anyones post instead of just the page it is on and then have to tell the person your trying to link that post to : scroll down to the 7th post for your answer" etc.
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That's existed since day one.
See the little "page" icon before the post date/time for any particular post. It's a link.
It looks like this: 
For example, your post (the 2nd post in this thread) is: http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=215653#215653
Click on that link and you'll go directly to your post. Right click and save the link to able to post it somewhere else.
Kal |
No sh*t!! I never knew that! thanks kal!!!!!
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| Link Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Nashou66 wrote: | | kal wrote: | | Nashou66 wrote: | I still want to be able to link directly to anyones post instead of just the page it is on and then have to tell the person your trying to link that post to : scroll down to the 7th post for your answer" etc.
Athanasios |
That's existed since day one.
See the little "page" icon before the post date/time for any particular post. It's a link.
It looks like this:
For example, your post (the 2nd post in this thread) is: http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=215653#215653
Click on that link and you'll go directly to your post. Right click and save the link to able to post it somewhere else.
Kal |
No sh*t!! I never knew that! thanks kal!!!!!
nashou |
Ahem...allow me to demonstrate the feature: http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=202318#202318 
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| Link Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm a computer neophyte, so save it to my computer as in "save as" and then pull it from my computer as a doc or is there something I'm missing?
I'm sure it's simple but I just don't get it. 
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| Link Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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How the hell did i miss that ben!!! Doh!!!!!!
Nashou |
It's all good! Remember when I asked you 20 questions about the LVPS mod components, and you had the link on the first page? Happens to the best 
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kal
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| Link Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Nashou66 wrote: | | kal wrote: | | Nashou66 wrote: | I still want to be able to link directly to anyones post instead of just the page it is on and then have to tell the person your trying to link that post to : scroll down to the 7th post for your answer" etc.
Athanasios |
That's existed since day one.
See the little "page" icon before the post date/time for any particular post. It's a link.
It looks like this:
For example, your post (the 2nd post in this thread) is: http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=215653#215653
Click on that link and you'll go directly to your post. Right click and save the link to able to post it somewhere else.
Kal |
No sh*t!! I never knew that! thanks kal!!!!!
nashou |
Note that the icon changes colour too if it's a new post you're seeing for the first time vs old.
New post: 
Old post:
That being said, it's never been obvious even to me and you're not the first one to ask... soo.... I've added the word "Link" beside the little page icon. I think it helps! Let me know what you think.
Kal
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| Link Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| dturco wrote: | I'm a computer neophyte, so save it to my computer as in "save as" and then pull it from my computer as a doc or is there something I'm missing?
I'm sure it's simple but I just don't get it. |
Actually the answer's not really simple as it has nothing to do with the forum software but everything to do with your PC and/or browser. You browser may have a "save as" feature that lets you save the page and contents in HTML format along with pictures (or not), and all as one file (or not). Every browser is different.
Look in the "File" menu of your browser.
But the better question is: Why do you want to do this?
Kal
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| Link Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| kal wrote: | Note that the icon changes colour too if it's a new post you're seeing for the first time vs old.
New post:
Old post: |
The "new vs old post" stuff has never worked too well for me. E.g. I read this thread, exited to the main page, refreshed, and it said there were still unread posts in this thread. I hit the "read unread posts" button ( ) and it took me to the first post in the thread again. All of the posts are marked with the new post icon.
Is that just me, or just Firefox, or does it work that way for everybody? It may be just Firefox, since I just launched IE8 and it did the right thing. Kal, any guesses why Firefox does that?
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| Link Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| kal wrote: | | dturco wrote: | I'm a computer neophyte, so save it to my computer as in "save as" and then pull it from my computer as a doc or is there something I'm missing?
I'm sure it's simple but I just don't get it. |
Actually the answer's not really simple as it has nothing to do with the forum software but everything to do with your PC and/or browser. You browser may have a "save as" feature that lets you save the page and contents in HTML format along with pictures (or not), and all as one file (or not). Every browser is different.
Look in the "File" menu of your browser.
But the better question is: Why do you want to do this?
Kal |
The why is because sometimes a question is asked that a particular post will answer much better then I ever could and like Nashou said I'd like to link to just that post instead of the thread.
As for my browser file I don't know that either.
Hell I still can't get multiple quotes like you just did either.
Thanks for answering.
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| Link Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| dturco wrote: | | kal wrote: | | dturco wrote: | I'm a computer neophyte, so save it to my computer as in "save as" and then pull it from my computer as a doc or is there something I'm missing?
I'm sure it's simple but I just don't get it. |
Actually the answer's not really simple as it has nothing to do with the forum software but everything to do with your PC and/or browser. You browser may have a "save as" feature that lets you save the page and contents in HTML format along with pictures (or not), and all as one file (or not). Every browser is different.
Look in the "File" menu of your browser.
But the better question is: Why do you want to do this?
Kal |
The why is because sometimes a question is asked that a particular post will answer much better then I ever could and like Nashou said I'd like to link to just that post instead of the thread.
As for my browser file I don't know that either.
Hell I still can't get multiple quotes like you just did either.
Thanks for answering. |
Ah, I think all you're asking is how to save the link so that you can post it in a different thread? Just right click on the link, pick the option to "copy link" (every browser has slightly different working for this) and then when you want to post it somewhere else, right click and choose "paste".
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Thanks again Kal, I'll work it out.
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Guess I'll just have to tell FF to pretend it's IE when I'm in the forum! It works for Windows Update so it should work here...
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