Split Topic: Using Quotes

[calmissile]

 

I'm still looking for the instructions for using quotes.

[LAman]

I'm still looking for the instructions for using quotes. 

Top right corner in each post!!!! the 'quote' sign

[calmissile]

Top right corner in each post!!!! the 'quote' sign

Thanks

I notice that sometimes people prefer to only quote part of the quote.  Do you post the whole quote and then use the modify feature to delete the parts you don't want or is there another way to do a partial quote.

[newjason]

Thanks

I notice that sometimes people prefer to only quote part of the quote.  Do you post the whole quote and then use the modify feature to delete the parts you don't want or is there another way to do a partial quote.

you can use the quote feature at any time. You want to respond to a post, press quote, and the authour's entire post appears in the Editor.

You can also press reply at the bottom of every thread page ,  then once inside your editor, there are a list  of  posts in decending order below the editor.

 If you choose to quote many, use this method,  and while in the editor, scroll down to the post you want to quote,  press quote, and it and any others you choose are injected into your post editor . In the order that you injected them.

Also you can work with quote like regular text. 

quote is simply the q tags

Code: [Select]

Tags tell the editor to do something extra. tags look like this   [] [/] 
one tag opens a action  [OPEN]  something cool here [/CLOSE]  the other closes the special action.
tags are the same word in both tags. [tag] opens a tag action and close it by  doing this [/tag]


to begin a quote feild you can make a quote TAG   just  type --- [quote]
then everything that appears after that tag , will be part of a quote feild. 
Up until the point of the closing TAG, a closing quote TAG  like this  --- [/quote]

so easy
open a quote [quote] now everything here will appear to be in a quote field until you end it with a
Closing quote Tag like this  ---[/quote]

now when I copy and paste the previous example here is what it looks like


so easy
open a quote

now everything here will appear to be in a quote field until you end it with a
Closing quote Tag like this  ---

I find the best way, is to  just quote the whole post,  then highlight and erase all the riff raff.   

any more questions, i am happy to help. 


Jason

[calmissile]

Thanks Jason.

[Muzh]

you can use the quote feature at any time. You want to respond to a post, press quote, and the authour's entire post appears in the Editor.

You can also press reply at the bottom of every thread page ,  then once inside your editor, there are a list  of  posts in decending order below the editor.

 If you choose to quote many, use this method,  and while in the editor, scroll down to the post you want to quote,  press quote, and it and any others you choose are injected into your post editor . In the order that you injected them.

Also you can work with quote like regular text. 

quote is simply the q tags

Code: [Select]

Tags tell the editor to do something extra. tags look like this   [] [/] 
one tag opens a action  [OPEN]  something cool here [/CLOSE]  the other closes the special action.
tags are the same word in both tags. [tag] opens a tag action and close it by  doing this [/tag]


to begin a quote feild you can make a quote TAG   just  type ---
so easy
open a quote
now when I copy and paste the previous example here is what it looks like


so easy
open a quote


I find the best way, is to  just quote the whole post,  then highlight and erase all the riff raff.   

any more questions, i am happy to help. 


Jason

You cannot cut and paste on this forum if you are using Firefox. Not a problem with IE.

[newjason]

You cannot cut and paste on this forum if you are using Firefox. Not a problem with IE.

Interesting.
I use Chrome.

[Shadow]

You cannot cut and paste on this forum if you are using Firefox. Not a problem with IE.

Thanks for telling me I have done the impossible for the past 5 years...

[happyandstable]

Most forums use BBCode to implement their post. There are many things you can do with BBCode .
Here is a fun site to go to and learn about it

 http://www.bbcode.org/guides.php

Hope this helps everyone.

[Muzh]

Thanks for telling me I have done the impossible for the past 5 years...

Well, show me your tricks. I cannot do it at my work computer nor at my home desktop.

[happyandstable]

Here is another site to help with BBCode in your post

http://ubuntuforums.org/misc.php?do=bbcode&styleid=109

   Muzh just out of curiosity what operating system are you using. It would seem to me that cut copy and paste is available in all applications

[Muzh]

At work, they are still in the dark ages: Windows XP Professional

At home is Vista and Windows 7.

[newjason]

Muzh
I am quite shocked that Firefox does not allow you to cut/copy/paste text.
I have never used Firefox, but I know it is one of the best out there.
I personally use Chrome.  with Windows XP sp3  and have no problems.
I would be interested if

Shadow

is using FirEFox , If you are both having this same trouble.

Lets do a test first.

Highlight this line with your mouse cursor or triple(3 times)click fast on this line. 

It should now all be highlighted.

Like this line is all highlighted and mean all this text is selected.

Press and hold the CTRL key  then tap the C  key.

That has copied the selected text to the (imaginary) clipboard.

Now start a Post , either Reply to this topic or press the Quote Icon  that is in the  upper right of every post.

move your mouse cursor to the text box area where you type your  reply or post by clicking on it.

Again  press and hold the CTRL key and tap the V key.

What happens?

You should see

Highlight this line with your mouse cursor or triple(3 times)click fast on this line.

If it is not working , you may have an extension that is preventing you from doing so.

But that would be very unusual, as  hightlight/cut/copy/paste  are all system wide commands built into the OS.

Let me know please...

[newjason]

Since this is it's own thread now,

I'll show you mine, if you show me yours

 

Continue with text lesson..

Here are a few notes:

to highlight   (select) text.

 you can move the mouse cursor to the desired place,
hold the left mouse button down,
and drag the cursor  <left or right> and or up and  down and select as much or as little as you wish.
 
Text is arranged from left to right and top to bottom on a web page and sometimes there are images that appear to be text but are really not. so if you have trouble selecting the exact words you want, 
you can click and place the cursor at the space before a word. 

Then hold the SHIFT key and press the right or left arrow keys to select one character at a time. Once one char is selected this way,  the up and down arrows will select on whole line of text with each press.

Another way to do this is by clicking the left mouse button x number of times ,
each will do something different.

1 left click -- places the cursor.


2 left clicks --  will select the WORD it is placed on. 

WORD means for this context  any number of continuous characters followed by a <blank space>  or a <tab> or <eol> End  of line.
EXAMPLE   your cursor is here > |and double click will select   and

3 left clicks --- will select the entire line of text.  or since web pages do not always lay out with line breaks, it may select an entire paragraph.

You may select ALL of the text on a page by
pressing and holding  CTRL and tap A.


Try it:

Highlight this line with your mouse cursor or triple(3 times)click fast on this line.

now, you have some other options with that text too.

Once selected you may  right click your mosue and there are all the command we just learned plus somtimes Undo and ReDo are there too.

I know in Chrome if you right click the selected text
you can choose Search Google For: <that selected text>
and it opens a new google search tab and returns the results.

Since there are so few Hot-Key people left in the world anymore, I will keep going and show you a few more shortcuts to do some pretty common stuff that can save you a little time after you practice them enough.  For this next section here is Context.. 

+ means  AND   ( This + That     meaning while doing THIS  you also do THAT )
-  means THEN  ( This - That    meaning   Do THIS first, complete, and then do THAT )

Here we go...

ALT + F4   Closes the current program window. ( works great is window is frozen )

CTRL + Q  Quit.

CTRL + A  Select All.

CTRL + Z  UN-DO (if applicable)
CTRL + Y  RE-DO (un-does UN-DO)(if applicable)

CTRL + N  New (File usually,  or project, or email or whatever )

CTRL + O  Gives your Lady an Orgasm   (not really, it just OPEN a File or webpage or documnet)

CTRL + S  Save  (saves the current work)

CTRL + P PRINT sends the current page to the  Printer queue.

CTRL + F  FIND  Search for occurrences of a word or phrase in the current Document or page

F3   Search and search again  same as FIND and is Find Next.

F1   HELP   opens the help page for innstructions on how to use the program.

ALT -  H  - A   That is  3 keystokes not holding any down.   ABOUT  tells all about this program.


Ok that's all for today.
Get those down and I can teach you some better more advanced stuff next time if you like.

[Daveman]

Muzh
I am quite shocked that Firefox does not allow you to cut/copy/paste text.
I have never used Firefox, but I know it is one of the best out there.
I personally use Chrome.  with Windows XP sp3  and have no problems.
I would be interested if

Shadow

is using FirEFox , If you are both having this same trouble.

Lets do a test first.

Highlight this line with your mouse cursor or triple(3 times)click fast on this line. 

It should now all be highlighted.

Like this line is all highlighted and mean all this text is selected.

Press and hold the CTRL key  then tap the C  key.

That has copied the selected text to the (imaginary) clipboard.

Now start a Post , either Reply to this topic or press the Quote Icon  that is in the  upper right of every post.

move your mouse cursor to the text box area where you type your  reply or post by clicking on it.

Again  press and hold the CTRL key and tap the V key.

What happens?

You should see

Highlight this line with your mouse cursor or triple(3 times)click fast on this line.

If it is not working , you may have an extension that is preventing you from doing so.

But that would be very unusual, as  hightlight/cut/copy/paste  are all system wide commands built into the OS.

Let me know please...

I am quite shocked that Firefox does not allow you to cut/copy/paste text.
I have never used Firefox, but I know it is one of the best out there.
I personally use Chrome.  with Windows XP sp3  and have no problems.


^^^the above block was copied with a mouse drag then Ctrl-C, pasted with Crtl-V using FF 11.0, WIN7


Let me know please...

^^^the above line was copied with a triple click highlight, then right click "copy" menu choice. Pasted with Ctrl-V (as the right click "paste" option was not present)

[happyandstable]

   You left out the easiest way which is to click and drag to highlight selected text, then right click and choose copy. Then you can right click in your post and choose paste. Then you have your text ready to post!

[happyandstable]

You left out the easiest way which is to click and drag to highlight selected text, then right click and choose copy. Then you can right click in your post and choose paste. Then you have your text ready to post!

Done using the above method

[newjason]

happyandstable?

to highlight   (select) text.

 you can move the mouse cursor to the desired place,
hold the left mouse button down,
and drag the cursor  <left or right> and or up and  down and select as much or as little as you wish.
 

Once selected you may  right click your mosue and there are all the commands we just learned plus somtimes Undo and ReDo are there too.

I did cover that 
That method is pretty easy for sure.

Personally, Im an old  shortcut/hot  key addict and feel the mouse is cheating because there were no mice when I was learning all this stuff  on Vi  and VIM and terminal server and EDIT.

Thank you for explaining  it more simply though, as I see how it could have gotten over looked.



DAVE!
you are kidding , right?

^^^the above block was copied with a mouse drag then Ctrl-C, pasted with Crtl-V using FF 11.0, WIN7


Let me know please...

^^^the above line was copied with a triple click highlight, then right click "copy" menu choice. Pasted with Ctrl-V (as the right click "paste" option was not present)

Paste was not present in the right click menu.  Wow. 
But it still works with control keys. 
That is odd.
Maybe  muzh is a mouse only guy and was right when he said he cant do it in FF.

Well ,  HE can now   



LOLLOL  can't paste in FF   sheeeh    DOI
I think someone might wanna bring that to their attention in a bug  report or something.
Stuff like that can get overlooked,  Not sure how , but that is an easy fix.


FYI
Chrome has cut/copy/paste/paste as plain text/delete/undo/redo/check spelling/select all/change language/select language  and more on right click.
I was an old MYIE2 /MAxATHLON guy as I could Arrange and customize it however I liked, and I could write scripts and plug them in and have my own commands and functions without a complete recompile of the source code.

I tried chrome a long time ago and un installed it. 

But I gave it another chance, as a power user looking to slim down on the clutter and speed up on HTML5.
Chrome is IMO much easier and intuitive to use once you get used to un-doing my  bad habits.


Curious
Does FF have a right click spell checker?




thanks Dave 

[happyandstable]

Personally, Im an old  shortcut/hot  key addict and feel the mouse is cheating because there were no mice when I was learning all this stuff

I started with punch cards!. I am also a dedicated IE man here. I have never used corme or Fire Fox. I did use Netscape a  very long time ago! But I love short cut key strokes the best myself.

[happyandstable]

The Totally mouse free approach! Use the arrow keys to position the cursor where you want to start. Hold down the shift key. Use the arrow keys to position the cursor where you want to stop. Press control C to copy. Then control V to paste. When you hold down the shift key and press the down arrow key the whole line will be highlighted starting from where the cursor is! (neat trick)

[SANDRO43]

The Totally mouse free approach!

Ah, a keyboard Romeo .

I started with punch cards!.

Rectangular chips in your breakfast ? Mine were round and smaller .

[calmissile]

Sandro,

You are really dating us old geezers. 
Here you will find one of the earliest transistorized computers I used.  It is the Burroughs Mod II and Mod III computers that were used for the Atlas radio guidance of our first ICBM's.  It used core memory which you could hear "singing" as the program ran.  The registers were displayed only with neon lamps, one row for each register.  Manual programming was via toggle switches very similar to old switchboard switches.  The outputs and inputs were from the radar system and also it had paper tape for guidance simulation inputs and punched a paper tape during flight that recorded all the radar inputs and computer outputs to the missile steering and discretes.

The transistors were PS-1 transistors made by a company in L.A. called Pacific Semiconductor Inc.  The core memory and transistors would be worth having a photo of, but I could not find any at the moment.

Since the core memory sang, some of our programmers would write programs that would produce songs from the cores (when sitting around with nothing else to do).

One of our more interesting missions was launching the "PRIME" lifting body into sub -orbital flight.  It was a small lifting body that was a predecessor to the shuttle.  It was supposed to be caught by an airplane during a parachute descent downrange....... which was not always successful.   

Go to the link below and then at the bottom of the page click on  Burroughs Guidance Computer Historical Summary

http://www.afspacemuseum.org/displays/BurroughsComputer/

There is also a brief explanation how "Closed Loop Radio Guidance" works in real life.  Might be interesting for some techy guys.

[SANDRO43]

Since the core memory sang, some of our programmers would write programs that would produce songs from the cores (when sitting around with nothing else to do).

Although our System/3 Model 10 (top of http://www.floriani.it/15-eng.htm) also had core memory, our programmers/SEs were not so creative with it initially. However, when the 1403 printer of the System/360 became connectable to it, they did write some interesting 'rhythm patterns' for it .

[Shadow]

Phew good to see that I am not THAT old yet...I only started when CP/M was the prime OS and a PC already had 64k memory and two 360k floppy drives....

[LAman]

Phew good to see that I am not THAT old yet...I only started when CP/M was the prime OS and a PC already had 64k memory and two 360k floppy drives....

yes as the 'younger' folk ...I did read somehwere in the history books re early computer systems!!