BB Code source view

[Neelix]

I understand that we need to wait for the upcoming version update but I wanted to put this request on the record.

Please enable the BB Code source view to the message editor when possible.

 

[Ziz]

Yes, I second this! The html view is not so useable.

 

[EvilDragon]

Well, if I do that, pressing the EDIT button will always show HTML which you need to clean yourself...
I'll re-enable BBCode, but I've not yet found a way to fix the EDIT mode.

 

[Neelix]

I hope that the edit mode is fixable. I find some adjustments work better by manipulating the BBCode directly (Quote manipulation especially is much easier this way, as is pasting formatted text into a code field (which tends to lose spaces otherwise))  For others I find it easier to use the formatting buttons at the top, so I tend to switch between editing modes as needed.  (Though it would probably help if formatting buttons worked in the BBcode view and just added the relevant code, then I wouldn't need to switch modes so much)

-Neelix

EDIT:  GAH!!!  now I can't enter new lines at all,  they just get lost when I save the message.  I have to add HTML paragraph markers manually to start a new paragraph

 

[EvilDragon]

Well, in worst case we have to wait until 4.1 which should only be a few weeks away.

 

[rygD]

I hope that the edit mode is fixable. I find some adjustments work better by manipulating the BBCode directly (Quote manipulation especially is much easier this way, as is pasting formatted text into a code field (which tends to lose spaces otherwise))  For others I find it easier to use the formatting buttons at the top, so I tend to switch between editing modes as needed. 

I used to do it like that as well.  Last time I tried that after the update it trashed my formatting.

I am trying again with this post to test it.

edit: yep, trashed it again (and the hardware keyboard on my smartphone doesnt have these guys >...I cant even add >them

 

[Nintendo]

Sometimes it works well, sometimes it doesn't?

 

[rygD]

Sometimes it works well, sometimes it doesn't?

Hasn't worked for me yet since he added it after the update.  Maybe I just don't need to switch between them.

Edit: no clue what is going on now, as the above two sentences were on 2 lines.

 

[Nintendo]

Well, I rely on it being off 99% of the time, actually.

 

[EvilDragon]

Okay, I had to remove the bbcode plugin again, as it didn't work with the single-line breaks.
 

 

[rygD]

Thanks for that.
another test.

 

[sswam]

The forum is about 80% less usable for me without the BBCODE mode.

Please turn it on if possible, even if it doesn't work perfectly.

 

[fusion_power]

Yupp, this editor is a nightmare, it's more closed than Windows. XD

Who made this mess and for what purpose? I see absolute no advantages compared to plain simple BB code editors, this one here is slow, has bugs, no preview and the quoting system is horrible. I suspect the inventor of this thing is an sadist.

 

[TrashyMG]

Well ED already stated a his desire to move from IP board to something else in the near future, so just hang tight.

 

[fusion_power]

I know. But until then, we have to suffer...