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Re: Coercing truncation in brief view on website (was: Re: test apple ignore berry)
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lugnet.off-topic.test
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Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:25:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.test, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.test, Steve Bliss writes:
> > Ah.
> >
> > --
> > This could lead to a whole way of messaging on LUGNET. We just put a
> > summary at the top, then a sig-marker, and the rest of the message would
> > follow.
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> 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...?
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> The "right" way to handle that would be to truncate anything following a ^L
> (Or ASCII #12, i.e. Ctrl-L) character. Could a few people try something
> for me in their web browsers? Click Reply to a message and try typing a
> Ctrl-L character as part of the reply... If you're in Windows and Ctrl-L
> doesn't show up as ^L or something invisible-but-present, try doing Alt+012
> (that is, hold down the Alt key while typing 0 1 2 on the ten-key pad).
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> Any real text editor will allow Ctrl-L directly in a textfile but I'm not
> sure about <TEXTAREA> boxes in HTML forms...depends on the browser I suppose.
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> > Of course, that would seriously conflict with many good newsreaders, which
> > clip the sig when inserting quoted material in follow-up messages.
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> Ya, I had to cut & paste what you wrote above in order to reply to this. :)
>
> --Todd
So i will look like this
and not this
Hmm,
Nue Wong Pitang Pitang Ole...
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