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Related: About this forumI hate smilies.
Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate smilies, especially when text I enter in a post gets turned into smilies.
Is it possible for DU to make available a command that disables the smiley generator in text? Sort of a [nosmiley][/no smiley] thing?
Yeah, I know what's coming.

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mahatmakanejeeves
(70,715 posts)chia
(2,835 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(3,564 posts)progree
(13,076 posts)i.e. ") produces a "
?
In case anyone is interested, there's a special trick to make it display ")
I do so by sticking a [/b] inside of it which gums up whatever is translating it into a "
and I used the same trick in the last line above to make it display [/b] , instead of having it simply disappear like formatting codes do.
mahatmakanejeeves
(70,715 posts)I had a Bluesky address this morning that got hijacked. That happens to some Wikipedia addresses too.
Happy March.
Wounded Bear
(64,628 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(70,715 posts)progree
(13,076 posts)that DU makes invisible or renders into something else like ") into "
by the [/b] hack. Strictly for expository purposes. I learned that one from DUer Make7.
Very handy for showing the URL for a graphic that DU automatically renders as the graphic.
e.g.
https://i.imgur.com/S314Fmt.png
the above has the [/b] stuck in it, so it displays the URL rather than the graphic.
Without the [/b] thing, DU renders into

Wounded Bear
(64,628 posts)J/K
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