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ebastler:

--- Quote from: Ian.M on October 24, 2024, 07:42:30 am ---It takes far far less time to type [ u r l ] ctrl-V [ / u r l ] or [ u r l = ctrl-V ] whatever text [ / u r l ] than it does to mouse about a web form filling in text boxes.

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Hmm, I don't know about that. Either I suck at typing, or you are really clumsy with a mouse.  ;)

Well, it might have to do with the German keyboard which forces me to use Shift for the slash and Alt-Gr for the square brackets. Typing out those tags is a nuisance; I do prefer to use the buttons to generate them. 
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: ebastler on October 24, 2024, 04:41:23 am ---
--- Quote from: Analog Kid on October 24, 2024, 03:25:28 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on October 23, 2024, 10:37:44 pm ---Personally I find inserting [ /quote] ... [ quote] more tedious, especially without a keyboard.

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That other forum I belong to (MASM32) has buttons in the reply panel for [tt] -- [/tt], [code] -- [/code] and [quote] -- [/quote].

Hey, this is 2024, not 1985!

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This forum certainly has all those buttons too.

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But the "wrong way round". I don't know how I manage to cope.
Ian.M:

--- Quote from: ebastler on October 24, 2024, 07:51:19 am ---
--- Quote from: Ian.M on October 24, 2024, 07:42:30 am ---It takes far far less time to type [ u r l ] ctrl-V [ / u r l ] or [ u r l = ctrl-V ] whatever text [ / u r l ] than it does to mouse about a web form filling in text boxes.

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Hmm, I don't know about that. Either I suck at typing, or you are really clumsy with a mouse.  ;)

Well, it might have to do with the German keyboard which forces me to use Shift for the slash and Alt-Gr for the square brackets. Typing out those tags is a nuisance; I do prefer to use the buttons to generate them. 

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Penalties of using a German keyboard!  Take a look at https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/44712961-how-to-identify-laptop-keyboard-localization and see which languages don't need to shift for [ / ] and lower case western alphabet.   
ebastler:

--- Quote from: Ian.M on October 24, 2024, 09:00:30 am ---Penalties of using a German keyboard!  Take a look at https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/44712961-how-to-identify-laptop-keyboard-localization and see which languages don't need to shift for [ / ] and lower case western alphabet.

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Yeah, I know... I started out with plain English/ASCII keyboards on my first computers, since they were the only option available. Much more convenient for programming; you also get <> without finger acrobatics. But for writing German text, those umlaut keys are kind of important... So we get to pay the price for the quirks in our spelling.  ::)
PlainName:

--- Quote from: DimitriP on October 24, 2024, 05:34:58 am ---I like my links naked and ugly so I can see where I'm about to go.

I'd rather have https://www.eevblog.com/forum/news/nicer-way-to-add-urls-to-a-post/
than   Silly Thread
y'kno'wha'I'mean?

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Doesn't your browser show the actual URL when you hover the pointer over it? If not, 'nice' links on this forum might be the least of your worries.
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