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  1964   Tue Oct 10 09:00:08 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux | Windows2.6.2-1714Re: Turn off smileys?

Ben Shepherd wrote:
Can we please have an option to turn off the thing that changes smileys automatically into
pictures?


Two ways:

  • Submit your entry in plain mode (insted of ELCode)
  • Put a \ in front of anything which is turned into a smiley, so ;) gets converted into Wink, but \;) does not get converted
  1965   Tue Oct 10 11:13:16 2006 Reply Ben Shepherdbjs54@dl.ac.ukRequestLinux | Windows2.6.2-1714Re: Turn off smileys?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

  • Submit your entry in plain mode (insted of ELCode)
  • Put a \ in front of anything which is turned into a smiley, so ;) gets converted into Wink, but \;) does not get converted


I realise that's possible, but things are getting converted into smileys that aren't intended to be smileys. Specifically, when I enter a question in brackets, the end bracket is converted into a smiley. (Like this?) should be (Like this\?). That is very annoying, and to be honest, I don't need the smileys. An option to switch them off would be the best thing.
  1966   Tue Oct 10 11:27:30 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux | Windows2.6.2-1714Re: Turn off smileys?

Ben Shepherd wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

  • Submit your entry in plain mode (insted of ELCode)
  • Put a \ in front of anything which is turned into a smiley, so ;) gets converted into Wink, but \;) does not get converted


I realise that's possible, but things are getting converted into smileys that aren't intended to be smileys. Specifically, when I enter a question in brackets, the end bracket is converted into a smiley. (Like this?) should be (Like this\?). That is very annoying, and to be honest, I don't need the smileys. An option to switch them off would be the best thing.


I agree that the ?) smiley is annoying, so I changed it to ?-) which should prevent it from showing up in questions in brackets. I updated this server (you can see the effect above), the modification is committed to subversion.
  1967   Tue Oct 10 11:36:13 2006 Reply Ben Shepherdbjs54@dl.ac.ukRequestLinux | Windows2.6.2-1714Re: Turn off smileys?

Stefan Ritt wrote:

I agree that the ?) smiley is annoying, so I changed it to ?-) which should prevent it from showing up in questions in brackets. I updated this server (you can see the effect above), the modification is committed to subversion.


Thanks a lot! I'm going to pester you though - it would be really good if there was an option to turn them off completely. Surely it can't be a huge amount of work... ?
  1968   Tue Oct 10 11:40:47 2006 Reply Ben Shepherdbjs54@dl.ac.ukRequestLinux | Windows2.6.2-1714Re: Append option for elog.exe

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Unfortunately it is not simple under Windows to extend the right-click functionality. What I do is to use a snapshot program (like HoverSnap). Triggered with a definable hot key, it grabs a region of the screen and puts it into a GIF file. Then you can attach it to an elog. I agree it takes a couple of clicks, but it's still a quick thing.


I think you misunderstand me. I was asking whether it would be possible for the elog command-line client program to have an "append to existing entry" option. That program's actually just what I need though - thanks!

ben
  1969   Tue Oct 10 11:45:22 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux | Windows2.6.2-1714Re: Turn off smileys?

Ben Shepherd wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

I agree that the ?) smiley is annoying, so I changed it to ?-) which should prevent it from showing up in questions in brackets. I updated this server (you can see the effect above), the modification is committed to subversion.


Thanks a lot! I'm going to pester you though - it would be really good if there was an option to turn them off completely. Surely it can't be a huge amount of work... ?


It's not the amount of work, it the intention to minimize the number of options. If you want a switch for the smileys, the next one wants a switch for automatic hot-linking (like http://...), the next one wants that only certain ELCode options are interpreted, not others, and then we will have a mess. By changing the ?-) definition I hope I have solved most cases without another flag. So either one has the comple ELCode set, or non. In the past I had many suggestions of new flags, which I could solve somehow otherwise. If I would not have done that, the manual would be twice as long by now...
  1970   Tue Oct 10 11:47:41 2006 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestLinux | Windows2.6.2-1714Re: Append option for elog.exe

Ben Shepherd wrote:
I think you misunderstand me. I was asking whether it would be possible for the elog command-line client program to have an "append to existing entry" option.


The elog command-line program has a -e switch to edit existing entries, but you need to know the ID of the entry.
  1971   Tue Oct 10 11:49:15 2006 Reply Ben Shepherdbjs54@dl.ac.ukRequestLinux | Windows2.6.2-1714Re: Append option for elog.exe

Stefan Ritt wrote:
The elog command-line program has a -e switch to edit existing entries, but you need to know the ID of the entry.


Yes, but if you use -e "text" it replaces the whole entry with "text". So an append option would be really useful...
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