 | | Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —Todd Lehman
|
| | | (...) It sounds like what people are looking for is some way to proactively cause the "Brief" mode display to truncate content at a specific location -- presumably for spoilers...? The "right" way to handle that would be to truncate anything (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| | | |
| | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —David Goeb
|
| | | | | (...) So i will look like this and not this Hmm, Nue Wong Pitang Pitang Ole... (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | |
| | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —Shiri Dori
|
| | | | | | (...) Well, it didn't work in IE. -Shiri (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —Shiri Dori
|
| | | | | | | (...) Lemme try... Huh... my ctrl+L brings up a silly IE dialog box. -Shiri -- Great, another thing for IE-haters to feed on. ;-) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —Shiri Dori
|
| | | | | | | | (...) Gee, I really don't get this. Now the double-dash didn't work at all. What diffrentiates one case from another? -Shiri (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —Todd Lehman
|
| | | | | | | | (...) It needs to be written in the standard sig format -- two hyphens at the beginning of a line, followed by a space character, followed by a newline character. (It "worked" before in cases like the one quoted above because it wasn't looking for (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —David Goeb
|
| | | | | | (...) Hmm, wheres the line? I had a double dash and two lines -- Just like this. -- (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —David Goeb
|
| | | | | | (...) Now I am confused, I can get a pair of   on last pair only? -- (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —David Goeb
|
| | | | | | (...) OK, last time this -- and not this. (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —David Goeb
|
| | | | | | (...) Arrgh!, ok ok, silly thing hide!! -- They blink in and out like a crazy monkey... -- (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —David Goeb
|
| | | | | | (...) Ahha I think I got it, -- (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —David Goeb
|
| | | | | | (...) [snip] (...) So it looks like MacHeads just go "dbldash space" then Keycaps for ctl-l and add a ctl-g. Or Netscape(4.7) will not -- (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —Todd Lehman
|
| | | | | | (...) You don't need to use "-- " if you use Ctrl-L (ASCII #12). If Ctrl-L appears anywhere in a post, the post is truncated from that point onward when displaying it in "Brief" mode (e.g., v=b). --Todd (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —David Goeb
|
| | | | | | (...) ok cool (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —David Goeb
|
| | | | | | (...) Never the same twice, First time I put just (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry) —Steve Bliss
|
| | | | (...) Two other reasons: 1. To make the brief message more meaningful and clean. 2. Because It Can Be Done. (...) Alrighty, then. Here goes. Grk. In IE5.0.2919.6307, ctl-L is a shortcut for Open. Which is kinda funny, because the menu shows the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.admin.nntp)
|
| | | | |
