Indents and Italics (update)

mrjeeves

For everyone experiencing the horrors of trying to make something italics

_and also accidentally making it code_

It seems like this was upstream!

https://github.com/flarum/core/issues/2107

shabazmoqsud

mrjeeves
to be honest i hate how the bold italic and underline have been implements its very tedious and i tend not to use them

it should be as simple as clicking the bold but and text becomes bold etc but the note like that. for the same reason i also hate quoting text.

harrrrrry

Yes, but that report is only 5 days old and I reported it here probably months ago.

It's a pity somebody didn't think to copy it there at the time, especially as the reason is so obvious and ought to be a quick fix

dtuxcomp

shabazmoqsud I don't bother clicking those buttons, I find it's easier to wrap the required text as I type, it's not tricky to type a few "*"'s either side depending on whether you want italics / bold or both.

harrrrrry

shabazmoqsud

If you're using something with a proper keyboard, bold is easy. Before the word(s) you want to be bold, press control-B then type the words you want to be bold, then press end and carry on typing.

Italic used to be just as easy, using control-I instead of control-B. II's only this unnecessary indent bug that has made it clumsy.

It's always going to be much harder doing it on a tiny screen without a proper keyboard, but there's not a lot that anybody can really do about that.

dtuxcomp

harrrrrry It's always going to be much harder doing it on a tiny screen without a proper keyboard, but there's not a lot that anybody can really do about that.

I bid on some cheap Bluetooth keyboards to save typing on the phone screen, great idea, 'till I won all 4 😉 🙂

harrrrrry

dtuxcomp great idea, 'till I won all 4 😉 🙂

You should be able to sell the other 3 on ebay and make a profit.

I did that with some grommets. Needed only a few, but you don't find them in ordinary shops and they're in boxes of 100 from Screwfix.

So I bought the box, split them up into lots of 10 and put 8 lots for sale on ebay. They all went, over several weeks and I think after fees I still got the cost of the full box back. That's better than having 80 of them getting in the way for ever more.

dtuxcomp

harrrrrry I ended up giving a couple away to family and kept two different ones for myself, one very tiny one and a larger one. Thankfully they didn't cost much each, so it was still cheaper than buying a single one new.

Great idea with the grommets, trouble is I know what I'm like, I'll never get round to selling them on and I've already got a flat full of "useful" stuff 🙂