Difference between revisions of "Talk:Patch Messaging Change "Enter Key" To Create Newline"

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as for displaying the newlines and spaces in the message body, the issue is that pretty much everything is a web page.  therefore you have to wrap the message text in <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tags to preserve the format.  see [[Patch_Messaging_Adding_Timestamps_to_All_Received_Messages#Add_Timestamps_to_All_Messages_-_another_approach|this link]] for a solution to the problem.
 
as for displaying the newlines and spaces in the message body, the issue is that pretty much everything is a web page.  therefore you have to wrap the message text in <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tags to preserve the format.  see [[Patch_Messaging_Adding_Timestamps_to_All_Received_Messages#Add_Timestamps_to_All_Messages_-_another_approach|this link]] for a solution to the problem.
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: That is one method, although the <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tag makes the text look like a typewriter and prevents word wrapping from occurring correctly.  A better alternative is actually replace the newline characters with <nowiki><br></nowiki> tags before the message is rendered.
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This is great. I am often hitting enter by accident and sending before I'm ready, so please also include how to do the opposite of your plan: enter does a new line and shift-enter sends. Thanks!!!

Latest revision as of 00:06, 24 August 2009

this is a useful mod, thx for sharing!

as for displaying the newlines and spaces in the message body, the issue is that pretty much everything is a web page. therefore you have to wrap the message text in <pre> tags to preserve the format. see this link for a solution to the problem.

That is one method, although the <pre> tag makes the text look like a typewriter and prevents word wrapping from occurring correctly. A better alternative is actually replace the newline characters with <br> tags before the message is rendered.
Tk102 00:06, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

This is great. I am often hitting enter by accident and sending before I'm ready, so please also include how to do the opposite of your plan: enter does a new line and shift-enter sends. Thanks!!!