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Tabs being lost, [code] tags, and text cursor jumping around

Jamin Grey · 2012-02-05T21:52:14

It's really annoying when trying to help users by posting code snippets. Whatever I do, no matter what, it loses the tabs and extra spaces. I then have to manually go back and re-tab it. Ofcourse, I can't actually press 'Tab' on my keyboard, that'd be too easy! Nope, I have to go through and copy+paste a tab from Notepad before every line. Except, everytime I paste something, the entire forum entry box scrolls to the bottom. So I have to: place cursor, paste tab, scroll back up. Place cursor, paste tab, scroll back up. Ofcourse, once I get finished, and submit the post... I remember that even pasted tabs are stripped out. Now I have to go through and do the entire thing again, but copying four spaces instead of a space. Could it possibly be more harder to help someone? Well, yes ofcourse it could! Whenever you are using formatting (italics, bold, etc...), when you stop formatting, and return to normal text, the next time you hit backspace or enter, it leaps the cursor back to either before, or after, the stylized text... and then applies the enter or backspace. Try to type in this: (using Ctrl+i to italicize, instead of the forum buttons) NormalItalicized Normal If it's so bad that I get aggravated with the forum software itself when trying to help someone, it makes me want to help out in the forums less. It's not just a minor annoyance either. When typing, you do it naturally. Text flows from your hands to the keyboard to the screen. Whenever the forum software mucks up where the text cursor is, it messes up the flow of typing and jarrs you... multiple times... a paragraph. Please fix!

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Started by Servant of the Lord January 29, 2012 12:43 AM

9 comments, last by Gaiiden 12 years, 2 months ago

Gaiiden

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February 05, 2012 09:52 PM

[quote name='Servant of the Lord' timestamp='1327893451' post='4907519']
Do we have any hope for it getting fixed, or is it beyond GD.net's control?

I'm not sure there is much we can do about it to be honest.
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FWIW I'm using FF v10 right now and the text cursor seems to be behaving much better now. It doesn't jump around but it is still slow to upadate its position and leaves a "ghost" of itself behind when you type fast sometimes.

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