Request: Keyboard support for bold, italic, underline; YOUTUBE tags; multi-quote

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Request: Keyboard support for bold, italic, underline; YOUTUBE tags; multi-quote

Post by Armchair Bronco » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:59 pm

I'd like to see keyboard support / keyboard accelerators added to the editor for at least the following:

BOLD (Ctrl + B)

ITALIC (Ctrl + I)

UNDERLINE (Ctrl + U)

Also, I'd like to see support for embedded [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] tags added.  These are pretty basic editing features on most other sites.

One other feature that's kinda nice is support for multi-quotes, that is: quoting from two or more previous messages in a single reply.
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Re: Request: Keyboard support for bold, italic, underline; YOUTUBE tags; multi-quote

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:12 am

I think the reason youtube embedding isn't allowed, is to keep the board from appearing too cluttered.  Good enough for me.  I don't mind clicking a link.

BTW, you can already quote multiple posts.  Just click the "insert quote" link under previous posts while replying.  Scroll down....it's right there.
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Re: Request: Keyboard support for bold, italic, underline; YOUTUBE tags; multi-quote

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:17 am

Also, the youtube embedding thing has been requested before, and the staff kindly explained why.....

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Re: Request: Keyboard support for bold, italic, underline; YOUTUBE tags; multi-quote

Post by the older brother » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:34 am

...and RoS have managed to post nearly 10 000 posts without those features....

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Re: Request: Keyboard support for bold, italic, underline; YOUTUBE tags; multi-quote

Post by Jay » Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:58 am

Keyboard modifiers in the editor are not technically possible unfortunately.  The Youtube thing has already been addressed previously and I don't think we'd have enough support for me to be willing to change it.  We do appreciate any suggestions though so don't be discouraged from posting more ideas if any of you have them.

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Re: Request: Keyboard support for bold, italic, underline; YOUTUBE tags; multi-quote

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:46 pm

the older brother wrote: ...and RoS have managed to post nearly 10 000 posts without those features....

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