You should make it so when you reply to a message, it has the message you're replying to after >'s

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You should make it so when you reply to a message, it has the message you're replying to after >'s


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I don't really think this is needed.

If you want to know what the person is replying to, you can quickly click on the post in the tree.

If the person wants to include the orig. text they can quote it as I have done here.

If Scream wants a routine that does this.. I can dig it up. It also uses Text::Wrapper w/an adjustable length.

The only downside is I didn't doing anything special to accommodate > 72 chars, so if for example you entered:

<a href="http://www.wwwthreads.org/perl/newreply.pl?Board=wishlist&Number=363&page=0&view=expanded&what=showpost&mode=threaded&sb=5">

you'll get:

><a
>href="http://www.wwwthreads.org/perl/newreply.pl?Board=wishlist&Number=363&page=0&view=expanded&what=showpost&mode=threaded&sb=5">


.. so the link is broken.

(hmm.. pr'y could've fixed that in the time it took to post this message

It's needed and it's pretty simple to implement.
Quick and not perfect (I'm weak perl programmer) is to change in newreply.pl (because HTML is enabled in this board I used [ instead of < and ] insted of >):

[textarea cols=$TextCols rows=$TextRows wrap=soft name="Body"][/textarea]

to:
[textarea cols=$TextCols rows=$TextRows wrap=soft name="Body"]> $Body\n\n[/textarea]

To replace [br] with newlines before `print qq~' add line:
$Body =~s /\[br\]/\n> /g;

Deleting lines beginning with `>' should also be considered to prevent too much quoting.

Greetings,
Piotr

All the user has to do is change to the "FLAT MODE" and the post is there???

Real NEET

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> All the user has to do is change to the "FLAT MODE" and the post is there???

..and all posts are there :-) which is not what every user wants, especially when a thread has 30-40 messages which is typical in my boards.
And what about mail subscriptions - there is no "flat mode" there :-)
I think an email style quoting would be a natural thing in subscriptions.

Greetings,
Piotr

try

We just need better navigation around the response threads. Has anyone used trn to read newsgroups? It has [ to move to the parent, ( and ) to see same-level sibling responses and ] for replies. Wwwthreads should have similar buttons so you don't have to worry about following the structure yourself when moving around. Likewise, flat mode should start at the first unread message and provide buttons to back up if you need context. I don't see any reason to encourage people to quote text that is easily available. If it is necessary it is easy enough to cut and paste from below the entry window anyway.

> I don't see any reason to encourage people to quote text that is easily available.

And I don't see any reason not to make a profile entry Autoquote (it's about 2-4 lines of code), which you can find in WebBBS - a few hundred of my users used to use WebBBS, so you see my problem :-)
I've already patched my wwwthreads, but I'd have to do this with every upgrade.
To Scream - if you would be so nice to include this in future versions :-)

Greetings,
Piotr